Ok I'm defnately a newbie to Linux trying to install Mandrake 7.1. After full
install it won't get past initilisation and dies just before xwindows starts.
Message is
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 ???
I fear it may be my video card? as I'm using a sony laptop with a
Here are a couple of sites to try, they helped me to install MD 7.0 on a Sony
VAIO
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/vaioF-series.html
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Ok I'm defnately a newbie to Linux trying to install Mandrake 7.1. After
that to a pointer?
Thanks in advance for all the help,
Hem
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Here are a couple of sites to try, they helped me
i just installed Mandrake on a friend's laptop- he's got a Sony Vaio
PCG-F250 (or something like that), when it came time to configure X I
just took the defaults for the monitor, which was a generic high
frequency that can do 1024x768.
Everything worked fine except that freakin USB mouse, so he
On 29 Jun 00, at 14:16, Hem Ramachandran wrote:
I have a problem with my mouse pointer after installing Mandrake on
my
Athlon processor which uses a PS2 microsoft mouse and S3- 3D2X
graphics
card. Instead of the mouse pointer, what I have is a BIG WHITE
SQUARE.
Do you know what I need to
