On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I did an upgrade from RedHat 5.2 with a selfcompiled kernel 2.2.3 to
> > Mandrake 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9-19. I can start my system from the boot
> > floppy but trying to start it from the HD gives at once a "crc error"
> > and the system halts.
>
> I don't think it's a kernel problem (nobody else is having it). By any
> chance, are you using a disk > 8.4 GB, and is the kernel in the area > 8.4
> GB? That's not possible (BIOS limitation, not a Linux bug).
>
> LLaP
> bero
This would also happen if you overwrote /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk with
some other kernel and didn't rewrite the boot sector with lilo.
