Get it working by using my usb cdwriter and 9.1 hdcdrom_usb.img looks likey things are looking up and learn abit about the booting and kernel of linux
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 +0000 > > Benjamin Jeeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Had my Laptop work until I made a time that it was time to reinstall > > Mandrake 8.0 now I can not install any version of Mandrake, RedHat > > this is what I get? > > > > The Laptop is Compaq Armada 3500, PII 266, 128MB RAM. > > > > RAMDISK: Compressed format (err=1)<6>Freeing initrd memory: 286k freed > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03 > > > > I think it is the cd/dvd player that is the problem have a UBS bruner > > but can not get it to boot from that drive. > > you could try booting from a floppy instead, Mandrake has floppy images > for download, but I have doubts you'll be able to find one for 8.0. It > actually sounds more like either a hard-drive or memory error, however. > If it was the CD drive, it would *usually* be more of an "all or > nothing" type of problem, ie. it wouldn't boot at all. Try the boot > floppy and install 9.1 if you can, but I wouldn't recommend KDE or Gnome > on that dinosaur! If push comes to shove, the last resort is to do a > network install, which I did with my webserver, and there is a special > boot floppy for that too! worked like a charm, it did! :) Check out the > Mandrake site under "Installation Instructions" I believe. > > > The Problem is that I am doing a design show for my dissertation which > > was develop on Linux Mandrake. The show is next Wed at my Uni was > > hoping for so help from you people might be able to help on this > > problem. > > Ouch!
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