Re: [Cooker] NEW to List and working on Ultra66 Install Problem

[Mark Wormgoor]

Hi,

> When the system had finished and rebooted, it froze up in 
> various ways that I tried.
> 
> 1. I tried to enter the same "linux ide0=noautotune 
> ide1=noautotune ide2noautotune ide3=noautotune"
> and the system seemed to boot the kernel then go into a panic 
> because it could not locate the root fs.
> 
> 2. I tried an old string from Mandrake 7.1 APPEND 
> command "hdd=ide-scsi ide2=0x1068,0x101c ide3=0x1060,1018"
> and the system found the drive properly on hde, but froze up 
> when it came to "Partition Check: hde: "
> 
> I also tried to specifically send it "root=/dev/hde7" but it 
> came back and said that it could not find the root FS.

One (tiny) question.  When you rebooted and the harddisks came by in the
kernel messages (try 1 above), was hde a harddisk?
My guess here is that the harddisk suddenly moved to hda7 and you should
boot using:
linux root=/dev/hda7 ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune
ide3=noautotune

Then, modify fstab and lilo.conf/grub to point to hda instead of hde.

I submitted this bug already.

Kind regards,

Mark Wormgoor

[Cooker] Mozilla themes problem

[Mark Wormgoor]

Hi,

Has anyone using Cooker tried to download themes with Mozilla yet?
It doesn't work for me.  It downloads just fine and then the file suddenly
disappears in thin air.  Sounds like a permission problem, since I'm
logged on as a regular user.  Haven't tried it as root though.

Kind regards,

    Mark Wormgoor

[Cooker] kdebase required htdig

[Mark Wormgoor]

Hi,

Why does the kdebase rpm require htdig?
I know there must be a logical solution, but I definitely can't think of
it.  rpm -e --nodeps htdig doesn't ruin kde :-)

Kind regards,

    Mark Wormgoor

[Cooker] Install problem with ATA/100

[Mark Wormgoor]

Hello,

There is a bug in the Mandrake 8.0 installation.
The bug: the installation uses a 2.2 kernel, while 8.0 is on 2.4

Why this matters:
I have an Asus P2BF with two onboard controllers and a Promise Ultra 100 
with the second onboard disabled.
With 2.2 it's like this:
onboard 1: hda, hdb
promise 1: hde, hdf
promise 2: hdg, hdh

With 2.4 it's like this:
onboard 1: hda, hdb
promise 1: hdc, hdd
promise 2: hde, hdf

This results in a kernel panic on first boot.  Need to boot using root=
and edit lilo.conf and fstab manually.

Second problem with the Promise Ultra 100 is that it needs
ide3=noautotune (which has my cd-rom on it).  Otherwise, it results in
read errors on the cdrom and segmentation faults in rpm installations.

Kind regards,

    Mark Wormgoor