ANY HELP !!! -Mandar
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Mandar Khanolkar wrote : >Hi, > >I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine. > >1 Probem: > When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter > to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me > this error followed by some exception trace. > *** > RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. > VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) > *** > After this messages it prints out some exception trace. > > If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "/" and enter, it > gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: > prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above > error message (problem#1 error). > >2 Problem: > a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for / and swap through > disk druid. I had prepared these partitions through partition magic. > b# I selected boot loader to be installaed on /dev/hda4 (Linux > partition) and kept default starting os as windows partition. > c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked > me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. > d# After completing the packages installation and post installation > tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it > went wrong. It was showing me hour-glass mouse icon but I guess it was hung. > It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I > restarted the machine and my windows os started w/o showing Fedora Grab > loader window. > e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on the /dev/hda4 linux > partition as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated > the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). > But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result. > >Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to >get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows >partitions. > >The System Details: > MB : Intel D865GVHZ > CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ > H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "/" and swap partitions lies at the > end of the physical hard-disk) > RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB > >-Mandar > >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
