On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:24:45 -0500, you wrote:
Sounds like he could be having memory problems. Suggest he get his
memory checked...he could have a bad simm...whatever he has for RAM.
The problem he is having sounds too suspiciously like that. Where he
is able to get a boot up sometimes and sometimes not. Sounding more
like hardware than a software problem. I have noticed that this
latest build is more hardware sensitive than earlier.
Leastways...thats how it seems.
Now..if his ram checks out ok, than he should do a re-install of 5.3
and see if that works since he says he had no problems with it. If
it works ...than make sure he formats all partitions including the
swap and than do an install of 6.0.
>I'm not sure what's wrong, and it would probably help if we knew the exact
>error messages, but I can suggest a couple things.
>
>Next time you reboot, try typing "linux 1" at the Lilo prompt. This should
>boot the "linux" image to boot level 1 (single user mode). It won't go
>though rc.local (and maybe some other init scripts that I don't know about)
>and then you can take a look around your system and see if you can find
>what's gone wrong. I think it would be a good idea to look at
>/etc/rc.d/rc.local, /etc/fstab, and /etc/X11/XF86Config (based on what you
>said). However, why it can't execute mkdir, I have no idea. Could the CD
>be damaged, perhaps?
>
>Hope this helps some.
>-Matt Stegman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 6:26 AM
>Subject: [newbie] still have Venus boot problems...:-(]
>
>
>> Lloyd wrote:
>> >
>> > Ok, last night I did a fresh workstation install of Venus on
>> > a clean hard disk. I started with an updated boot.img
>> > install floppy which I got from the "updates"directory from
>> > a Mandrake mirror. The I started my my CD-ROM install. Ok,
>> > so far, so good. Near the end of the install, it asks to
>> > configure X. I set it up exactly the same way I set it up
>> > under Festen (where it worked perfectly) It says it doesn't
>> > like my X configuration and will use a default configuration
>> > instead. OK, I figure I'll just re-run Xconfigurator later.
>> > It then asks to make a custom bootdisk. Did that. It then
>> > says to remove the diskette and press return. OK, I do that.
>> > It starts rebooting. It goes along fine and then the
>> > weirdness begins. A message comes up saying something like
>> > (I don't remember it 100% precisely) "cannot execute
>> > /sbin/mgetty-respawning too fast" (could possibly be
>> > mingetty). Then it dies. It says "INIT-no more processes
>> > left." I turned it off and on. When it reboots, the getty
>> > messages don't appear. Instead I get a new one. It gets to
>> > "creating /mnt/disk-OK", then it says
>> > "/bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary file-FAILED".
>> > And that's where it dies every time.
>> >
>> > I actually did get it to boot from the boot floppy I made,
>> > but it only worked ONCE.
>> >
>> > Does anybody have ANY ideas? Under Festen this all worked
>> > just fine.
>> > I realize it's pretty long, but details are sometimes
>> > necessary...:-)
>> > --
>> > Lloyd Osten
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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