Greetings, all.
I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few
snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto.
Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig
drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS
SOLO-1 sound integrated.
The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only
work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it
tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and
created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and
booted from it.
When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this:
03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0
dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
Then I get a Reading super block failed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera 2.3
and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved and
installed over them)
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Wayne
