Grub loading
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Apr 10 15:33:42 UTC 2006
"Brian Candlish" wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> Having installed and reinstalled Fedora Core 5, my grub load
> er simply will not boot Fedora, yet will do so for Windows X
> P. When trying to load Fedora I get the following response:-
>
>
> Boot
> Uncompressing Linux …
> Crc error
> --System halted
>
On first glance it sounds like either a bad drive sector, or a bad
install. Did you do the media check on the FC5 media? A CRC error (short
for cyclic redundancy check) is usually associated with a bad file
copy/corrupt file/bad disk sector issue.
>
> Can anyone please explain what a crc error is and what I can
> do about it.
>
> All suggestions gratefully received – I thought of booting
> from a floppy but can’t get grub to work via a floppy!
>
> Malcolm Candlish.
>
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