Boot errors?

[Harvey Fishman]

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Jim Tison wrote:

> I apologize in advance for this post, as I'm sure many have seen this 
> question before (I'm new here).
> 
> I just upgraded my Linux 2.1.57 box from the old AHA1542CF controller 
> to the AHA2940UW. I rebuilt my kernel for AIC7XXX support somewhat 
> blindly, not certain of which options to flag at config time, nor
> did I make any changes to lilo.conf. The kernel with AIC7XXX support in it
> lives at /vmlinuz, which lilo.conf points to.  
> 
> What I ended up with is a system that runs perfectly in all aspects
> of its operation, except booting, which I now have to do from floppy.
> 
> Here's what I get at boot time when I try to let LILO boot from 
> /dev/sda ... 
> 
>   LILO Loading Linux............
>   Uncompressing Linux...
> 
>   ran out of input data
> 
> 
>    -- System halted
> 

Are you ___SURE___ that you executed lilo after moving the image to /vmlinuz?
You MUST do this to build the absolute references for LILO to find the image 
at boot time.  It sounds very much like LILO is loading an old image that is
partially written over so that it runs out of data during decompression.

If this is the case, don't feel bad.  EVERYONE does this at one point or 
another.  I am very sensitive to the problem because it has caused me many
headaches. ;-)

Harvey

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