Re: LILO error: ran out of input data?
Sounds like the box is bad, I'd guess that the memory is the problem. Funny thing is, I've tried using different memory (a newer DIMM, and some old SIMMs) and get the same error regardless. Is there some weird BIOS setting I'm missing (it's an FIC VA-503+, if that helps), or is it just hosed? Thanks, Brian Dunnette
Re: LILO error: ran out of input data?
From: Brian Dunnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO error: ran out of input data? Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:33:30 -0500 Sounds like the box is bad, I'd guess that the memory is the problem. Funny thing is, I've tried using different memory (a newer DIMM, and some old SIMMs) and get the same error regardless. Is there some weird BIOS setting I'm missing (it's an FIC VA-503+, if that helps), or is it just hosed? Thanks, Brian Dunnette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humm. I have a few of those fic mobos too. If the memory itself is good, there still could be be a chip or something on the motherboard is causing memory problems. You might try memcheck x86, I don't have a link for it here. It boots off of a floppy and burns through the memory running a series of write, read and compares with different bit patterns. See if anything else runs correctly on the machine, run through a windows install if you have one of their cds or you could try a NIC's diagnostic diskette just something to show whether it happens only under debian/linux or not. You could try another hd and/or cable, does the problems begin more or less right away or only after its copied a lot of stuff to the hd, or starts reading from the disk? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: LILO error: ran out of input data?
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:52:57AM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote: 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 // i had the same problem after trying to boot a custom kernel on 2 clone laptops and 1 dell dimension (xps t600r). however, my sony picturebook doesn't crap out. (so i guess i've got inferior h/w; i've learned to quit buying clones and stick with brand names, other than dell.) sorry i can't help. bentley taylor. //
LILO error: ran out of input data?
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
Re: LILO error: ran out of input data?
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
