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Having installed and reinstalled Fedora Core 5, my grub
<BR>loader simply will not boot Fedora, yet will do so for
<BR>Windows XP. When trying to load Fedora I get the following
<BR>response:-
<BR>>
<BR>>
<BR>> Boot
<BR>> Uncompressing Linux
<BR>> Crc error
<BR>> --System halted
<BR>>
<BR>On first glance it sounds like either a bad drive sector,
<BR>or a bad
<BR>install. Did you do the media check on the FC5 media? A CRC <BR>
<BR>error (short
<BR>for cyclic redundancy check) is usually associated with a
<BR>bad file
<BR>copy/corrupt file/bad disk sector issue.
<BR>
<BR>Thank you Mark Haney.
<BR>
<BR>A CRC is a Cyclic Redundancy Check. It is a means by which
<BR>one
<BR>can check for corruption of data. Simply put, it's very much<BR>
<BR>like checking a balance sheet by "casting out nines". If the<BR>
<BR>"nines sums" are not the same, then the computations cannot
<BR>be correct. In this case, the kernel has the "nines sum"
<BR>(CRC) appended. The one computed when the kernel was created<BR>
<BR>is not the same as the one computed after the kernel was
<BR>decompressed, so something went wrong.
<BR>
<BR>Thank you Mike McCarty
<BR>
<BR>After receiving Mark & Mike's helpful e-mail messages I refo<BR>rmatted my disc to no avail; but then replaced the hard driv<BR>e and yes yes yes all went well.
<BR>
<BR>My thanks to you both.
<BR>
<BR>B. M. Candlish.<BR>
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