Hi All:
My problem with the Mandrake 8.1 was solved. Thanks
to all who responded to my email.
Best
Albert
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Hong Sun wrote:
> Hi, All:
>
> I am pretty new with linux. Actually, this is my first time to install
> the Mandrake linux 8.1 (2 CD disks) to a desktop. The installation was
> very smooth. But after the installation and reboot, nothing happened and
> the screen was black! After re-login with the "failsafe" mode, the
> following error message showed up on the screen:
>
> .
> .
> EIP: 0068 [<00008332>]
> .
> .
> Code: Bad EIP value
> <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> My computer has a 3D mainboard (PV40A series), a Pentium 4
> CPU (1.6G), a NVIDIA TNT2 32M graphic accelerator card, a 512M
> memory and a 40G hard disk. A Window 98 operating system occupied
> first 5G hard disk in hda1, followed in the extended partition are the
> 517M swap partition (logical), 2.5G \ partition (logical) and 6G \home
> partition (logical). There is about 12G un-used hard disk space, then
> 6G window_D partition (logical) and 6G window_E partition (logical).
>
> I was able to start the linux using the Rescue mode from the CD,
> and found the whole system in the computer. But some boot_log were
> empty. After re-install the system several times and consulted some
> of my friends, the problem remained the same. I was completely out of
> my wits now. Mandrake linux has very friendly interfaces. I don't want
> to give it up so easily. Any suggestion on how to solve this problem is
> greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Albert
>
>
>
>
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