Bug#4060: Update: 4060 - Kernel decompression failure.

["Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@nts.umn.edu>]

On Aug 14,  3:10pm, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
:
: It is possible that your system has timing problems ... Try to
: increase  the IO-Waitstates in the BIOS-Setup (if there is an option
: like that),  and leave both internal and external cache on.
:
>-- End of excerpt from Sebastian Benoit

Thanks for the recommendation.  I will give it a try.  On the other
hand,

- I'm not the only person who has reported this problem.  I've seen a
  few reports.  I'll try to find out if there is a similarity.

- I've heard reports from OS/2 users that similar problems have been
  seen with some installations of that OS.  Again, the solution was to
  disable cache.

- Linux 1.2.8 loads and runs fine from the hard disk.  The others who
  had to turn off cache in order to install Debian found that they
  could re-enable cache once they had installed the system.

I don't know enough about hardware to know if these points are
consistant with timing problems.  As I said, turning off the internal
cache (external remains on, on my system) works.  I'll also try your
suggestion, since the results will shed some light on the problem.

Thanks!

Christoph -)-----

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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh@nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services