Kernel Panic With Kazymyr?

[precogpunk]

I've searched for this question so if its been answered already then let me start off saying sorry!

I'm trying to mount my tivo drive using the Kazymyr CD but I keep getting a kernal error on boot. I was wondering if it was a computer issue so I booted it in my other computer (without the tivo drive plugged in) and again I got a kernal error. I'm assuming this CD has a full system on it, so the error isnt a result of data not found on the tivo drive. The error I get is "Kernal Panic" then says to pass some init parameters or something. Maybe I have a bad burn of the CD??

Thanks for your help! -- Precog

[chipster]

Probably a bad CD burn. What version of the CD? Latest is 2.6i. Try another. If not that, perhaps an incompatability with your PC. What uP are you running? Any unusual configuration?

When do you see the error? Should first boot to a "boot:" prompt, allowing you to select byteswap or non-byteswap w/DMA modes. Normally, just hit enter at this prompt. Then should come to the login prompt.

[Chance]

I agree I coastered about 3 cd's before stupid burn would take right for some reason, then one that looked all the right size on the outside and the goods on a look inside wasted bunch of time for me as I debugged my 3 other hard drives, cdroms, scsi's etc on the old computer I was dong back up on before I simply burned another CD and it worked fine! I have virgin full image of version 2.0 but its for dtivo so would depend on what you have and were going to do, etc! do think I still have file of CD burn here too! And of course first question about what version you are using 2_6i is stable ...there are several more versions and test ones floating as well, etc.. Lemme know!


Chance

[kazymyr]

Whew. I am so relieved. I thought I was making you get panicky. ;)

[precogpunk]

Well I'm trying to burn the 2.6i , when I download from Kazymyr's site and uncompress (using stuffit expander) I get an error. Does anyone have an image they can upload?

[precogpunk]

Hey kazymyr, I did some more research and it seems the gz file has a bad md5sum. I've download it several times, also directly using my linux box (running netscape in gnome) -- I dont seem to be able to download with a matching md5sum. I know other people have downloaded the ISO with no problems so its odd.. Have any ideas? Well, thanks for your help.

[kazymyr]

Netscape? Well, there's your problem. Netscape is notorious for mangling gzip-compressed files. Use wget:
wget http://members.safepages.com/stamasd@seniorglobe.org/tbd/tbdv2_6i.tar.gz

[Chance]

yeah I might have file still on here, system in bazillion bad ways right now so Ill see if I can find it..I have not even tested it or anything as not buying gonzo hard drives yet! its the file everyone around is using and no one has said different? yeah I need to redo an begin a ton of current tools, etc myself. its the stupid iso burn I think thats the snag anyhow..I use NERO 5.5.4 or something, I maybe should take the time and actually check out a manual or something on it, lol really....

[chipster]

Just get the iso from:

http://www.9thtee.com/tivoupgrades.htm

Or - for SCSI support at boot, get 2.6g - that's what I'm using - if you can find it. Had a link for older versions, but they're not there anymore.

[precogpunk]

Here's what I get with WGET :

[valis]$ wget http://members.safepages.com/sta...tbdv2_6i.tar.gz
--00:36:46-- http://members.safepages.com:80/sta..tbdv2_6i.tar.gz
=> `tbdv2_6i.tar.gz'
Connecting to members.safepages.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8,787,702 [application/x-tar]

0K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... [ 0%]
8550K -> .......... .......... .......... . [100%]

00:39:08 (60.55 KB/s) - `tbdv2_6i.tar.gz' saved [8787702/8787702]

[valis]$ md5sum tbdv2_6i.tar.gz
0168011fe774f908933f487a99009d90 tbdv2_6i.tar.gz

[valis]$ gzip -d tbdv2_6i.tar.gz
gzip: tbdv2_6i.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error

[kazymyr]

Well, the site also has the md5sum for the tar.gz package - double and triple checked. Until the download doesn't have exactly the same checksum, it won't decompress correctly.

Note: to make sure the file is still intact on the site, I just downloaded it, and it gives me the correct md5sum, and decompresses OK. Something is wrong at your end: you're getting the correct file size, but the wrong md5sum.

[precogpunk]

Im just getting frusterated because I keep DLing (8 times now) and keep getting the wrong md5sum -- I'm on DSL so it shouldnt be a connection issue. oh well, I'll keep trying.

[precogpunk]

Update:

Finally got the download to work... only took 100 tries! :)