On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:45:53 -0500
amy at real-time.com wrote:
>I'm trying to boot to debian bootdisk created by autoinstall.  It loads
>initrd fine but when it tries to load the kernel, I get this error:
>
>bad gzip magic numbers
>
>-- System Halted
>
>Does anyone know what that error message means?  It sounds like it's having
>problems uncompressing the kernel.  I compiled the kernel using make-kpkg.
>Thanks.

It sounds like gzip libraries may have a problem on the compiling box.  After
you have the initrd image, can you extract the kernel and uncompress it
manually? Can you do that for a kernel that DOES boot? 

Jay

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