Re: [expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-10 Thread xjqcf
--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:59 pm, you wrote: Pardon my asking an install question, but I have gotten noplace on newbie and alt.os.linux.mandrake. I have a set of install discs for mdk 9.0 from Cheapbytes. I managed to install 9.0 over an existing

Re: [expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-10 Thread Ed Tharp
have you tried booting from the second cd and using an alternate kernel? On Thursday 10 October 2002 06:40 am, xjqcf wrote: --- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:59 pm, you wrote: Pardon my asking an install question, but I have gotten noplace on newbie and

Re: [expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-10 Thread xjqcf
Sorry for the lag, but I only have a couple of hours in the evening to do thi ssuff...the rest of the time is sleep and work with an NT box all day :( I didn't find anything from CD2 but on CD 3 I found a 2.4.1-linus rpm, which I installed and booted from. This botted all the way, with a few

Re: [expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-09 Thread et
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:59 pm, you wrote: Pardon my asking an install question, but I have gotten noplace on newbie and alt.os.linux.mandrake. I have a set of install discs for mdk 9.0 from Cheapbytes. I managed to install 9.0 over an existing ext2 (Mdk 8.2) and swap a partition (not

Re: [expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-09 Thread xjqcf
et, Thanks for the reply. i just got this but I'm at work and I'll try this tonight when i geet home. I already tried to disable APIC in the BIOS setup with no effect. This morning I surfed to The VIA site (maker of the chipset used on this motherboard) which has a Linux BBS section. Browsing

[expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-08 Thread xjqcf
Pardon my asking an install question, but I have gotten noplace on newbie and alt.os.linux.mandrake. I have a set of install discs for mdk 9.0 from Cheapbytes. I managed to install 9.0 over an existing ext2 (Mdk 8.2) and swap a partition (not an update) without many problems. However, when I