[Gllug] 'Ran out of input data' when booting a new kernel (FC4)

[Paul Rayner]

On 3 Oct 2006, at 09:15, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Paul Rayner wrote:
>> Any ideas what's causing the boot failure or how to fix it?
>
> That error indicates that your kernel is incomplete - i.e. the file  
> on disk does not contain as much compressed data as expected.


On 3 Oct 2006, at 12:46, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:46:04AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
>> Maybe there was some corruption when the new kernel RPM was  
>> installed?
>
> Yeah that sounds like a pretty likely candidate - perhaps /boot hit
> 100% usage.

On 3 Oct 2006, at 09:46, John Hearns wrote:

> Maybe there was some corruption when the new kernel RPM was installed?
>
> Run the command:
> md5sum /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img
>
> On my laptop (i686 architecture) I get
> 24f4bf426690f082d4ac7dc5dc1d5160  /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4.img

It was indeed corruption. I manually downloaded the kernel again,  
used rpm to remove kernel-2.6.17, then installed from the rpm I'd  
just downloaded, and now have a machine that boots correctly :)

Thanks for all the useful suggestions. Much appreciated.

Regards,

Paul

P.S Sorry that my previous email came in evil html format, it won't  
happen again!

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Paul Rayner
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Paul.Rayner at YlemSolutions.com


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