[PLUG] Mandrake 9.0 install problem...

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

I got the same type of error 2 years ago trying to install Mandrake on a
desktop with an IBM hard drive.  After some google searching I found a
RedHat
support pagesuggesting it might be that the IDE cables were too long.  This
didn't help.  I took the easy route out and bought SuSE 7.2, which installed
flawlessly.  6 months ago I upgraded to Libranet and also have had no
problems.

I'm sorry that this doesn't really help you solve your problem, but it looks
like the version of the kernel that Mandrake (and maybe still RedHat) use
for installs enables a crc check which doesn't always work on IBM drives.

Greg


I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 from CDROM on to an IBM ThinkPad X20
Laptop (600 MHz P III).  It already has SuSE 8.0 which installed without
trouble.

The initial screen(s) show up fine but as soon as I go to select
something (anything) and boot I get the following:

>  Loading alt0/all.rdz.................................
>  Ready.
>  Uncompressing Linux...
>
>  crc error
>
>  -- System Halted

A search of the Mandrake site (and Google for that matter) did not yield
a solution to this and I'm stumped.  There is no BIOS setting for
anything that I could identify as remotely related to this error.
I saw some references to Western Digital hard drives but this is a CDROM
and an IBM drive so there is no correlation there.

Anybody here have any ideas?

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