Problems with CDROM installing on ThinkPad 600

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/2/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> FWIW:  I tried using ``noapm apci=off'' as suggested with a CentOS 5.0 CD,

Instead of noapm, you might try noapic

> and it paniced as it had before with the last part of the display shown
> below.  This CD has been used several times with kickstart installs so I
> doubt that it's bad.
>
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> crc error

That screams bad RAM to me.  Anytime there's a crc error when doing
something with a ramdisk, the RAM is at fault.

Have you run memtest86+ on this system recently?

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