From: Brian Dunnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: LILO error: "ran out of input data"?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:52:57 -0500
Hey all...
Just tried installing Debian 2.2 on an old K6 I had lying around... after
wading
through LOTS of stuff (the installer crashes at random points, I get
"unable to
handle null dereference" or kernel paging errors, and I get segfaults when
the
installer tries to unzip the base2_2 and drivers packages...) I thought I'd
finally gotten everything working -- LILO ran normally, and the installer,
for once, exited happily. But then, upon rebooting, I get this:
LILO Loading Linux.
Uncompressing Linux...
ran out of input data
-- System halted
What, exactly, does this mean? And how can I get rid of it?
Thanks,
Brian Dunnette
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Sounds like the box is bad, I'd guess that the memory is the problem.
I have a K6-200mhz (plus nearly a dozen K6-2s and K6-IIIs) that runs debian
just fine.
Whenever I had a system with bad memory usually the first problem I notice
is filesystem errors, I guess because of the filesystem buffers get screwy
before they're written to disk and/or the program actually flushing them
does screwy things due to the bad memory.
Of course when the memory goes bad, pretty much everything tends crap out,
but anything memory intensive is likely to get weird first, like just
uncompressing the kernel during boot-time, etc. How it manifests itself
depends on how much of the RAM is bad.
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