On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:16:50AM -0500, Jay Kline (list at slushpupie.com) wrote: > 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? How do you do that? Maybe I don't understand completely, but from what I've read, the kernel has a built-in mini gunzip so that standard gunzip commands won't work on it. In the meantime, I recompiled the kernel on a different box and it got past Loading linux .... but partway into Uncompressing Linux it just reboots, so now it looks like I have another issue. -- Amy Tanner amy at real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list