http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2669
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-09 00:03 ------- I made a discovery about the unbootable CD. The CD was written on a rewritable CD. When booting, it would initially boot ok but would later start having the read errors and would eventually fail. I made a image from that same CD which wouldn't install correctly. I then wrote the image back to a CD-R. When I boot with the CD-R everything seems to work fine. So the problem does seem to be hardware related. My CD drive is about 2 years old but has problems reading rewriteable CD. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: RESOLVED creation_date: description: When trying to install 9.1 RC1, I get the following error and then the computer just freezes: "Could not uncompress second state ramdisk. This is probably a hardware error while reading the data. (This may be caused by a hardware failure or a Linux Kernel bug)" The log window shows: * trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdinst_state2.bz2 as a ramdisk * reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR * unsetting automatic The kernel messages show: <6> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1148956 <4> hdb: status timeout: status=0xc0 (Busy) <4> hdb: status timeout: status=0x00 <3> hdb: drive not ready for command <4> hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4> hdb: irq timeout: status=0x00 (Busy) <4> hdb: irq timeout: error=0x00 <4> hdb: ATAPI reset complete <4> hdb: irq timeout status=0xc0 (Busy) <4> hdb: irq timeout: error=0x00 <6> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1148960 This computer has an ASUS A7N8X motherboard with the integrated NVIDIA nForce 2 chipset. It also has an AMD XP 2000 CPU. BTW, I get the same errors when trying to install Mandrake 9.0. I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed but I installed it on my drive using a different computer.
