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    #31
    Originally posted by rwbehne1 View Post
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    [B]/casper/initrd.lz:[/B] [COLOR=#ff0000]FAILED[/COLOR]
    Just in case you don't know, or hadn't worked it out, that's exactly the file that corresponds to the first error in your screenshot.

    Regards, John Little
    Regards, John Little

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      #32
      I ran that badblocks command, and it didn't take very long. But it also found no errors.

      Since I wanted to acid test the drive, and since overwriting it didn't matter (because I could always reformat and try to reinstall again) I decided to force it to do a write test, had it direct errors output to a file, left it running and went to bed. It ran all night I guess. Around 8AM we had a power outage which lasted several hours (again, it's common here,) and now that I'm back home I checked the errors file to see what it found: nothing!

      So I went back to formatting the drive, installing a new partition table and file system, then setting the boot flag, and I had written a shell script to dd the ISO file onto it, then cd to that directory and test the checksums for each file, saving the results to a file in my root partition. Lastly the batch file would grep that file for the word "FAIL", and print it on the screen. I must have done over 30 installs to this drive using that shell script.

      After running the badblocks acid test last night and finding nothing, I blanked the drive and installed again. It failed, so I tried it a second time, and Viola!, it passed this time! I couldn't believe it, so I manually repeated the checksums test several times to make certain it's working and giving me the correct results. It is: I apparently have a viable boot drive now, so next to try to run it.

      Wish me luck!
      Last edited by rwbehne1; Aug 24, 2017, 04:34 AM. Reason: Fixed omission for clarity.
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        #33
        Good luck!


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          #34
          Success, It booted twice! Now on to the next maddening problems!

          Thanks to everyone!
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