<HTML> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <BODY> Having installed and reinstalled Fedora Core 5, my grub loader simply will not boot Fedora, yet will do so for Windows XP. 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. Thank you Mark Haney. A CRC is a Cyclic Redundancy Check. It is a means by which one can check for corruption of data. Simply put, it's very much like checking a balance sheet by "casting out nines". If the "nines sums" are not the same, then the computations cannot be correct. In this case, the kernel has the "nines sum" (CRC) appended. The one computed when the kernel was created is not the same as the one computed after the kernel was decompressed, so something went wrong. Thank you Mike McCarty After receiving Mark & Mike's helpful e-mail messages I refo rmatted my disc to no avail; but then replaced the hard driv e and yes yes yes all went well. My thanks to you both. B. M. Candlish. </BODY> </HTML>