Why am I recieving all question addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't want 100 of these clogging up my mail????????? --- Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 3:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > This solution worked for the installation, was able to > install 9.0 > > > beautifully, but now I can't actually log onto 9.0..goes > blank when I > > > try. Got one problem fixed lol now to figure out the rest. > > > > > > Walt > > > > Hopefully Walt or anyone with the same problem can help me > through this. > > > > I am referring to the K7VMM MoBo installation problem with > Mandrake 9.0. > > I was about to follow the Mandrake 9.0 installation patch > specified on > > their website (with the CTL/ALT/F2 etc...) and then noticed > that although > > you (Walt) were able to successfully install it with this > technique, it > > would not boot up anyway. > > > > Did you ever get this to finally boot up nicely? If so, > what did you need > > to do? I on the same boat.... K7VMM mobo. > > > > I look forward to your response or anyone else whom has some > input. > > > > Regards, > > Frank > > Frank - this sounds familiar to me. When I first set up 9.0 I > could boot into > that, but not into 8.2. After much help from the list I found > that it > happened because I had a /boot directory in each install > (which is what > happens if you don't make a separate /boot partition). You > need to know > which of those is being read by the boot process. If you > can't find out, try > this solution on both of them - it will do no harm, although > only one of them > will be used. > > In the old /boot directory,find the file called > initrd-2.4.whatever and the > vmlinuz-2.4.whatever. Copy them into the new /boot directory. > Do the same > the other way round, copying them from the new into the old. > You will end up > with two similarly named files for each, in my case > initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img > and initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img, and the same for the vmlinuz > entries. > > Boot is only reading one of these, and it needs to be able to > find both > versions, depending on which you choose in lilo. > > HTH > > Anne > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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