Ok, so it was a corrupt floppy as someone mentioned before. now the floppy
is good, all the md5sums match (though i didn't do badblocks because i
dont know the parameters to use for checking a floppy, man page wasn't too
helpful there for me). So now when i boot it (either from setting boot
from drive a in bios, or from choosing 'floppy' from lilo) it starts the
mandrake cooker install program but when i get to the screen asking for
partition and directory it says:
'Device hda8 does not appear to contain a Linux Mandrake installation
tree.
There should be a directory Mandrake, there's only:'
nothing listed after the 'only:'
so i did: cat /dev/mstab and /home is on /dev/hda8, i mirrored the cooker
to /home/ejs/cooker so i thought i would have to select /dev/hda8 for the
partition and choose /home/ejs/cooker/ for the path but that gave me the
above error message. so then i thought well, mstab lists /dev/hda8 as
/home so i thought maybe i dont need to specify the /home part of the path
so i did just /ejs/cooker, still didn't work, then i did ejs/cooker
(leaving off the first / ) and it erased the screen and put a blinking
square cursor in the bottome left of the screen and proceeded to do
nothing.
also, when i get to the screen which prints the message from above:
'Device hda8 does not ...' choosing cancel does absolutely nothing and i
had to hit the reset button my puta causing the check to be forced on the
next boot.
help, :)
eric.
the mirrored cooker doesn't have to be on its on partition or something
does it? anyway, when i figure all this stuff out i'll write up a newbies
guide for all this stuff that can maybe be linked off the cooker mandrake
page so people wont have to keep asking stuff like this all the time. thx.
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> "Eric J. Smith" wrote:
>
> > 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'
> >
> > then after that repeated a bunch it ended with...
> >
> > 'could not find kernel image: linux'
> >
> > any help is appreciated, but please be precise since i know very little.
>
> If you generated the floppy under Linux you can easily verify it
> either of two ways:
>
> 1. diff hd.img /dev/fd0
>
> 2. md5sum hd.img
> md5sum /dev/fd0
>
> The resulting sumchecks should be identical to each other and to
> the hd.img sumcheck in MD5SUM.
>
> It is ESSENTIAL to use a floppy disk that has been thoroughly checked
> for NO bad sectors beforehand. You may have to use Windows for this.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
>
>
