Thanks to everyone who answered my question, particularly Oleg.
Hmm...that sounds logical. The CRC errors won't be from the CD or the floppies but
something in the machine's hardware and something's that memory-related. I'm leaning
more towards cache being the problem...although, I have a ques
>CRC error (right after uncompressing Linux) System Halted.
This means that you RAM is screwed up. It is a BIOS error, not from Linux.
>I have tried booting from Redhat 5.0 CD and floppies and 4.2 CD >and
floppies
>with the same error.
>What's the problem?
Igmar
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> I can't boot up from the CDROM or the boot diskettes without getting
> the following error message: CRC error (right after uncompressing
> Linux) System Halted.
First suspicion: bad memory or/and cache, and the corrupt rpm
database supports that; you could have errors in other
files too, just
