I ended up finding a solution to my problem myself, so I will post it
here for the record.
First, a summary of the problem I had with kernel 2.4.20-ac2 and
2.4.21-pre5-ac2 and Lilo 22.4:
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:05, Pedro Soria Rodriguez wrote:
> I am getting a CRC error when the kernel is being decompressed after
> loading. It is intermitent, but I can force it to occur on every boot
> if I type on the keyboard while the kernel is loaded (before being
> decompressed).
> It happens on a certain machine,
> with USB keyboard, and not with a PS2 keyboard.
> It does not happen on other machines with USB or PS2 keyboards.
The problem turned out to be a combination of LILO and an apparently
buggy BIOS.
I switched from using LILO to using GRUB as a boot loader, and the
problem went away. I found that loading a kernel with SYSLINUX (from
CDROM), LoadLin (from DOS), PXE (over the net) all works fine. It is
only when loading it with LILO when the CRC error appears. I read
somewhere on the net that the problem may be related to a buggy BIOS in
the machine.
The problem was the USB keyb + buggy BIOS + LILO + large kernel
(apparently this does not happen on small kernels, as I read somewhere
else on the net).
cheers,
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