"Lyndon Lininger Sr." wrote:
>
> That may have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. Mine is just a
> lowly 75 Mhz pentium. One person on alt.os.linux.mandrake Wrote me and said
> that the fix was to boot in emergency mode and edit the rc.sysinit script in
> etc/rc.d. He said to comment out the optimizations for the hard drives near
> the bottom of the script and that would solve the problem. I haven't tried
> it yet, but will let you know.
>
> Lyndon Lininger Sr.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 6:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] installing 6.0
>
> > Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: John Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 10:01 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] installing 6.0
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Lloyd O. 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.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > > 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?
> > > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > I hate to add a "me too" but I have to. I installed 6.0 (from the
> > > Cheapbytes
> > > > CD) and thought all was well until I left the machine for a few hours
> and
> > > upon
> > > > my return the box was locked up, a la Windows 9x. After a few aborted
> > > fscks 6.0
> > > > was running again only to suffer the same failure an hour later.
> > > >
> > > > Venus reminds me too much of my MS beta-testing days <shudder> and
> should
> > > be
> > > > considered beta software.... YMMV (but probably won't!)
> > > >
> > > > John Knopp
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > (Back to Festen and enjoying life again!)
> > >
> > > I installed Venus from a CD I burned myself from the .iso file. I tried
> > > doing an upgrade over 5.3 but that wasn't much of a success. When I did
> a
> > > clean install I had no problems at all. In fact, some things are better.
> > > I've gotten my SB AWE64 Gold to work without having to use the OSS
> drivers
> > > that I had bought for version 5.3. Perhaps there is something amiss with
> > > those CDs?
> > >
> > > Peace,
> > > Jonathan Dlouhy
> >
> > Bad ISO file we got, maybe. My pet theory is that it might
> > be related to MMX cpu registers. Mine doesn't have
> > them--does yours?
> >
> > PS. The person who gave me the disk (a member of our local
> > Linux group) installed it on his own machine--a notebook. He
> > said it installed with no problems. Hmmmmm....
> >
> >
> > --
> > Lloyd Osten
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
How do you boot in emergency mode?
Lloyd
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Lloyd Osten
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
