Often times it is easier to blame someone else - especially if it is the evil empire - than to try to find a solution.
When I loaded 9.1 on my brand new laptop w/ XP Pro, it was the smoothest linux install I ever did (which may or may not indicate a positive experience ;^) - it was good! Windows can't "protect" itself if it isn't loaded! It can be tenacious if it is loaded! I doubt that the problems you have had in installing Linux have anything to do with XP. LeRoy > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: >> On Saturday 01 November 2003 01:58 pm, Richard Bown wrote: >> >> > So went to load MDK 9.2 on it, starts up finds both HD's but fails >> to get an interrupt response and says protection level >= 1. >> > So disconnect the first HD and swap over the cables so the second HD >> looks like the only drive.... same again :(( >> > load a dos floppy with fdisk on it and delete the primary partition. >> try yo install MDK9.2 and 9.1 and 8.2 ....same damn thing with >> interupt failure and protection. >> > swap the HD over to second IDE and disable primary IDE in the bios >> so now looking at INT 15.....same B**DDy thing !!!!!. >> > >> > >> > put the original primary HD back in boot up in WinXP and guess what >> second HD shown as 40 GB NTFS. >> > >> > This is not the first time I've had major probs installing MDK after >> winxp has been on a HD.. >> > >> Problem has nothing to do with the fact that WinXP has already been on >> the drive. See below. > > I really must disagree with you on this Greg, if this was so , how come > I can move a drive thats had winxp, into a machine thats happily running > linux and get problems on an install, normally when the partition table > is written ?? >> >> > From what I've seen its on different MOBOs different size HDs.. >> > >> > So what happens to the newbie who gets a bit fed up with gates and >> buys a MDK package, ? >> > a system that wont load is disastrous. >> > >> Come to the mailing lists to see how the problem can be fixed. >> > > I get the impression you mean the newbie list ? > >> > any ideas how I can get that crap off the mbr so I can load mdk 9.2 >> ???. I also think Mandrake needs to combat this .. >> > >> These problems you describe generally relate to the i/o APIC cuasing >> trouble, especially with a VIA chipset. You didn't sya what >> motherboard you have, but booting the install kernel with the >> parameters noapic and acpi=off should fix you right up. At the >> splash screen, hit escape and then type >> >> linux noapic acpi=off >> >> Yes acpi and apic are different, so type it exactly as I have written >> it. > > I'll try it , but I'm extremely sceptical > > Richard > -- > Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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