14.2 recent installs: LZMA corrupt or Cnt'l-D
by systemd-refugee from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5908D)
both of my recent Slackware installations fail to boot
The one on my Asus-g73 laptop errors out with something about Ct'l-D and trying alternate superblocks (tried, no good) and the desktop with a "LZMA data is corrupt". I just repeated the install 3 times on the laptop, same story. I saw something in the installer about having to partition disks with either fdisk or cdisk, but both were partitioned with gdisk. The laptop is a 2.5" 1gb WD, the desktop is a 1tb Samsung ssd. Here's the table up to p3, the only diff is that the boot partition on the laptop is 500mb I think.. I'm now on the desktop.
# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 2CB71AC7-D2DB-4B81-A559-02802643D197
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 974189 sectors (475.7 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 104447 50.0 MiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
2 104448 8493055 4.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap
3 8493056 218208255 100.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
I also have Leap and others aboard, on the laptop I tried both with LILO and with grub2, no joy. The other installs all boot ok. I've read about GPT partition tables conflicting w. Slackware but those would have been fixed a long time ago.
The one on my Asus-g73 laptop errors out with something about Ct'l-D and trying alternate superblocks (tried, no good) and the desktop with a "LZMA data is corrupt". I just repeated the install 3 times on the laptop, same story. I saw something in the installer about having to partition disks with either fdisk or cdisk, but both were partitioned with gdisk. The laptop is a 2.5" 1gb WD, the desktop is a 1tb Samsung ssd. Here's the table up to p3, the only diff is that the boot partition on the laptop is 500mb I think.. I'm now on the desktop.
# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 2CB71AC7-D2DB-4B81-A559-02802643D197
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 974189 sectors (475.7 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 104447 50.0 MiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
2 104448 8493055 4.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap
3 8493056 218208255 100.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
I also have Leap and others aboard, on the laptop I tried both with LILO and with grub2, no joy. The other installs all boot ok. I've read about GPT partition tables conflicting w. Slackware but those would have been fixed a long time ago.