Problem in rhel3 installation

[Richard Riley]

Don't skip the media check and see what it reports.

Have you ever used this CD before?

It would appear the installation CD has a bad cpio file on it or the CD
itself is damaged or needs to be cleaned.

 

Richard Riley

IT System Administrator

Procuri Inc.

 

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From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of mohammed
saif
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 5:56 AM
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: Problem in rhel3 installtion

 

Hi list,
Am new here in the list and I hope to be as corporative as you wish,

Am trying to install RHEL 3 on HP ML 350 , P3 and 512 ram. Every time I
reboot the system and boot from the installation cd, I hit the enter to
start then skip the media check , after that  about a half  of the
screen turned into blue  and " error 2 reading header: cpio: bad magic"
comes up.
I tried to:
- changing the media and checking the checksum,
- kernel parameters: linux hdc=nodma
                              linux apci=off nolapic 
                              linux noapic nolapic
and nothing worked.

Is it a H/W problem like RAM or some H/W combination problem thats make
this error??

Regards
Mohammad  

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