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-rw-r--r--mdk-stage1/tools.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mdk-stage1/tools.c b/mdk-stage1/tools.c
index 49a70a494..bd99f6cf3 100644
--- a/mdk-stage1/tools.c
+++ b/mdk-stage1/tools.c
@@ -284,7 +284,9 @@ enum return_type load_ramdisk_fd(int ramdisk_fd, int size)
if (!seems_ok) {
log_message("reading compressed ramdisk: %s", BZ2_bzerror(st2, &z_errnum));
remove_wait_message();
- stg1_error_message("Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk.");
+ stg1_error_message("Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. "
+ "This is probably an hardware error while reading the data. "
+ "(this may be caused by a hardware failure or a Linux kernel bug)");
return RETURN_ERROR;
}