[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monday, December 24, 2001): >On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 14:01, Doug Lerner wrote: >> Hi. Thanks for the reply. I believe the ISO is good, and the CD-ROM was >> "verified" after the burn. >> >> Have you heard of other HP Pavilion 2000's running Mandrake Linux? It >> isn't on the Mandrake hardware list. >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Doug Lerner, Tokyo >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monday, December 24, 2001): >> >> >On Saturday 22 December 2001 20:47, you wrote: >> >> Hi. I just downloaded the install ISO image for Mandrake 8.1 and burned a >> >> CD-ROM from it. Then I restarted my computer and the Mandrake >> >> installation program started up. I pressed Enter and after a bunch of >> >> lines on the screen the process stopped with the following error message: >> >> >> >> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! >> >> >> >> I tried this again, pressing F1 instead of Enter and choosing various >> >> other installations, such as vgalo. But they all resulted in the same >> >> error. >> >> >> >> Does this mean my hardware is just not supported? >> >> >> >> It is an HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion 2000, Celeron 400 MHz, 192 MB RAM. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Doug Lerner, Tokyo >> >Should not be a problem. From what I have seen on the mail list. Are you >> sure >> >you have a clean download of the iso's by using checksums? It sounds >> like the >> >install CD is not good. If you burn a new one, burn it at a slow speed >like >> >2x. HTH >> >-- >> >Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 >> > >> >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >> >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > >The Pavilion will run it just fine. >...But you might try F1 at the splash screen and >'linux noauto' >without the quotes at the input prompt. > >If that doesn't work, boot from CD#2 and use an alternate install image. > >AFAIK, the Pavilions all run ... HP is one of the vendors offering >Mandrake bundled with some of its models. > >Besides, you missed the point of their questioning the CD--it isn't a >burn error necessarily, it may be that your CD drive has worn sleeve >bearings causing enough eccentricity to misread burned CD-Rs (CDRWs are >five or more times as sensitive to this), but if you did not verify that >the md5sum of the images you received matched the md5sum at the site >that sent it, you may have had a transmission problem. These are more >common than we like, but then the mirrors are not on Mandrake servers >buyt rather generously volunteered by others. > >Civileme > Thannks for your reply! As you probably saw in my followup notes, the CD- ROM does appear to be fine. That is, at least it boots and runs the Installer program on one other Intel machine I had lying around here. So the problem in booting up and running the installer does not appear to be the CD-ROM. I will try the linux noauto option. <pause to try> Same "kernel panic: attempted to kill init!" error. I guess I need to download CD#2 and try that. After I confirm that it works I will buy a complete package. Thanks for your help, Doug Lerner, Tokyo
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