----- Original Message ----- From: "John Drouhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:55:03 -0500 > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Drouhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:13 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More > > Info!!! > > > > Hardware messed up...you don't mean like...physical damage, do you? Because > > that's happened before. A week after I got this box the hard drive broke > > down. On tech support for two hours until they could be convinced that > > formatting with the restore discs isn't gonna help, and that there was > > nothing you could do... Shame they didn't let me keep the old hard > > drive...I've always wanted to disect one of those... I have seen a few > > articles about linux on this model. Didn't say anything about locking up. > > And why would the 2.6.3 kernel affect rescue mode off the boot discs? > > Anyway, if it does, would that mean that rescue mode on the v10 discs might > > help? > > > > I'm not really sure. At what point on the rescue process did it freeze? > Exactly how far did you get? Were you able to get to the command line? > You may have some hardware conflicts or faulty bios settings. If the > rescue disks freeze your computer, then it's definitely not the kernel's > problem - unless it messed with the hardware in a permanent way. (This > is highly unlikely). I say try the rescue disks again, tell us how far > it gets, then try resetting the bios. Then try everything once more. If > that doesn't work, wait for Mandrake 10 to come out. You can choose > whether you want the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel at installation time. > > John > > > -- > Tue Feb 24 21:01:52 CST 2004 > ------------------------------ > Registered Linux User # 315649 > Registered Machine # 201001 > > Small is beautiful. > -- Schumacher's Dictum > > I've tried many times with Rescue mode. I get to the part where it asks to choose what to do. I'm not exactly sure if it freezes, I think it might just be that it doesn't recognize the keystrokes...or something like that. I think the hd problem occured when you told me to add that --premount parameter. It must have been forced to do something to the partition. I'm not sure if I'm making sense or if this is unintelligible mumbling, but I know that's what caused it. Odd too, everything went alright except for the fact that it couldn't find my /home directory. Probably hadn't mounted hda7. I suppose I'll wait for mdk 10, and reinstall, unless someone has any suggestions? --Marc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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