[AuckLUG] Strange system crash ? Any suggestions ?

[Ron Johns]

Hi All,
       I am getting a repeated system crash.After a clean and good 
install my system runs for a few days or weeks and then goes down with 
the following error...

"Uncompressing Linux...
 OK booting the kernel
 CRC error
 Kernel panic - not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block (0,0)"

This system has heretofore run for years with no problems whatsoever but 
has suddenly started
this behaviour in the last few weeks,Thank the Gods I do good backups 
but I'm getting tired of
re-installing the whole thing which is the only way to get the kernel up 
again and the whole thing is freaking me out.

I seem to remember CRC error from way back as a hardware thing on old 
HDD's but this is a near new WD 80g ,could it be a disk problem ?

Please help.
Gaspode
AKA Ron