carl_dean
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Redhat 7.3 Intall Problem - Error2 : Requesting cpio : bad magic
I am trying to install Redhat 7.3 on my system.
System Spec is :
Athlon 1.33Ghz
512Mb PC2100 DDR
MSI Motherboard
MSI GeForce 2 MX
The system boots of the Installation CD#1 and after pressing <Enter> to install Redhat the screen goes blue and it does not a lot or 4/5 minutes or so (except for spinning the CD occasionally and writing to the hard drive).
What happens then is that I will sometimes get the Error2 message in the question title, sometime I dont, and then the installation aborts citing it recieved a signal 11, and then kindly eject the CD for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Carl
System Spec is :
Athlon 1.33Ghz
512Mb PC2100 DDR
MSI Motherboard
MSI GeForce 2 MX
The system boots of the Installation CD#1 and after pressing <Enter> to install Redhat the screen goes blue and it does not a lot or 4/5 minutes or so (except for spinning the CD occasionally and writing to the hard drive).
What happens then is that I will sometimes get the Error2 message in the question title, sometime I dont, and then the installation aborts citing it recieved a signal 11, and then kindly eject the CD for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Carl
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Carl,
When the initial RedHat install screen comes up, instead of just pressing [Enter] type:
linux nofb
Let me know if the install goes any better.
/*Raj*/
When the initial RedHat install screen comes up, instead of just pressing [Enter] type:
linux nofb
Let me know if the install goes any better.
/*Raj*/
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I'm going to guess here that the problem is with your Linux cd or with your CD reader. The bit relating to bad magic is a reference to a 'magic number' that is written to your CD to indicate either a valid File allocation table, or valid file header.
Error2 is normally a bus or IO error - Error 11 indicates as jlevie has suggested that whatever has been loaded is trying to access memory that it shouldn't.
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Error2 is normally a bus or IO error - Error 11 indicates as jlevie has suggested that whatever has been loaded is trying to access memory that it shouldn't.
No comment has been added lately, so it's time to clean up this TA.
I will leave a recommendation in the Cleanup topic area that this question is:
Points to jlevie for the reasons given above.
Please leave any comments here within the next seven days.
PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS COMMENT AS AN ANSWER!
pjedmond
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