I don't know if this relates to your problem but I had a hell of a time on the intial
install. As it turned out, I was trying to install onto a drive that was slaved.
When I swapped the drive onto the master positin of the secondary port, everything
went smooth. Take a look and see if your HD is in this position.
jp
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Sent: September 8, 1999 11:30 PM
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Subject: [newbie] Should I Give Up?
I need some SERIOUS help...
Very Brief History: I had a (mostly self-built) dual-boot linux/win98
system running for about 2 days, and then it started rebooting at will. I
had the MB/CPU/RAM/CPU/Power replaced and now I'm staring all over again.
..but nothing works. I think its a hardware problem, but I'm going stark
raving mad trying to pin it down. Windows doesn't install, using 2
different CDROM drives (although they both may be bad) and two different
HDs (although one is too small so Windows install stopped), numerous
fdisks, formats, and scandisks.
So, in a state of despair, I tried to install linux to see what would
happen. I booted to the CheapBytes CDROM I booted to for the first
install, and it starts loading the kernel and doing autoprobe stuff, but
hangs after the following error:
partition check
hda
RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
crc errorVFS: cannot open root device 08:21
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:21
I have no idea what the hell this is, and I'm so sick of all this, I'm
wondering if I should just throw all my time and money out the window.
Somebody help a lost soul.
--chris
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