Alan,
I tried to purchase the CD but there was some sort of billing address discrepency.
If I download the ISO file to one of my partitions, that is the one that I want to
have Linux Mandrake installed to, do I still have to run rawwrite.exe again.
I checked the FAQ section and there appears to be a patch for Autoboot.bat. It
appears that original was wrong.
I have another computer running WinNT4 with 2 FAT partitions (C and D)and the third
partition E is NTFS. This is a Pentium III 733 MHz. I will clear everything out on
the D partition, and try to install on it.
How about it?
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Roman....as I believe I said before, run partinfo.exe.
>
> I believe you have errors in your partition table that can be
> identified by partinfo.exe and fixed with ptedit.exe (both are
> part of PM).
>
> Concerning the lost interrupt errors, they are usually
> associated with hard drives and cdroms. The best fix for that
> is to download the i486 version of mandrake 7.0. If you wish,
> it's available on CD at:
>
> http://www.lland.com
>
> It seems that some mass storage devices are out-of-spec timing
> wise and this problem with the hardware has shown up because
> the i586 optimizations that Mandrake is compiled with push the
> limits of the out-of-spec timing parameters of some devices.
> The i486 optimizations do not push the hardware as hard in
> this area.
>
> Alan
>
> P.S. By the way, buying a MacMillan boxed set will not help,
> as all disc 1's in all boxed distros of Mandrake 7.0 and all
> GPL CD's (except for the 1486 version) are exactly the same.
>
> Romanator wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my
> > partition table.
> > Sample message:
> >
> > hdb: drive not ready for command
> > hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {}
> > unable to read partition table
> > hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
> > hdd: lost interrupt
> >
> > The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt' keeps repeating and repeating until I have to
> > do a CNTRL+ALT+DELETE.
> >
> > How do you get into graphical mode? I have the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
> >
> > Roman
> > Registered User
> >
> > Eduardo Arauz wrote:
> >
> > > i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run :
> > > fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the
> > > problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems....
> > > finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work
> > > 100% i cant mount either a cd rom or a diskette )
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: X Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:40 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
> > >
> > > I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
> > > is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
> > > Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
> > > browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
> > > I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
> > > icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
> > > normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
> > > to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
> > > and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
> > > rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
> > > every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
> > > boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
> > > "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
> > > inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
> > > "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
> > > options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
> > > during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
> > > reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
> > > ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
> > > "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
> > > 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
> > > 1.14...".
> > >
> > > I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
> > > ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
> > > saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
> > > scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
> > >
> > > It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
> > > finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
> > > experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
> > > setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
> > > reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
> > > Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
> > > with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
> > > you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
> > > crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
> > > AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
> > > different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
> > > thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
> > > something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
> > > definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
> > > like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
> > > Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
> > > still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
> > > worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
> > > in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do
> > > what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded
> > > VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full
> > > time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
> > >
