Lloyd wrote:
> "Lyndon Lininger Sr." wrote:
> >
> > Help I've tried upgrading from mandrake 5.3, clean installing 6.0 and still
> > can't get it to work. I got the cd from cheapbytes. Everything seems to
> > install correctly, but when it re-boots I have nothing but problems.
> >
> > It goes thru boot until after the hard drive optimizations then I get the
> > following errors.
> >
> > Creating /mnt/disk
> > /bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary file
> >
> > [FAILED]
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> > INIT: cannot execute etc/rc.d/rc
> > INIT: Id "1" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "2" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "3" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "4" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "5" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "6" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> >
> > Then every five minutes it repeats the INIT respawning lines
> > The only way to exit is to do a power down. Any ideas. Do I have a bad cd?
> >
> > Lyndon Lininger Sr.
>
> I have EXACTLY the same problem. I've tried to install
> Mandrake 6 probably 15 times, ad I've been very fortunate if
> I even got it to boot.
> Maybe you could provide your hardware specifics?
> --
> Lloyd Osten
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a work around may be to at the lilo promt type "linux 3" to start at run
level 3 and change your inittab.conf to run level 3.... ive run into this
problem before ...I guess that it it has some ting to do with the video driver.
Mike Julien