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Re: 'ran out of data' while loading

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eze Ogwuma)
Mon Oct 28 23:31:02 1996

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:23:20 +0000
From: Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>
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dmd@student.umass.edu said:
> Most of the time, things boot fine --  but every fourth or fifth boot 
> I get this message:

> Loading linux... Uncompressing Linux...

>  ran out of data

>    -- system halted

> Any ideas?

One possible cause is that you might be dual booting from 'NT or '95. If 
you are rather than using "Shutdown and Restart", use Shutdown to halt the 
other OS and then press the reset button on your machine.

> Also, a question ... under colgate, building the kernel and lilo puts 
> vmlinuz and System.map in /. However, /etc/lilo.conf in the latest 
> setup RPM points to /boot/vmlinuz. Am I missing something, or is this 
> weird? 

-- 
Eze Ogwuma





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