RE: [Cooker] Problem booting into RC1
Problem is that LILO doesn't work properly. Every time I install Linux on my second harddrive (this happens with all distros) LILO and GRUB don't work. Which is why I need a bootdisk... How do I manually re-create the bootdisk? Is there an .img file that I can use? I can still access my linux partition, so that's not a problem. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 10, 2002 5:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Problem booting into RC1 Trevor Ramoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I grabbed the report.bug.gz from /root/drakx. It should be attached. [...] I was able to successfully install RC1. In the last part of the install, I created a bootdisk and then rebooted. However when I try to boot off the floppy into my Mandrake install all I get is: Loading vmlinuz. Boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue. According to the logs, the creation of the bootdisk had been successful. The two options are: either our bootdisk creation is bugged and doesn't report failures, or your floppy has an hardware failure that didn't report to the floppy drive during bootdisk creation but lead to a misread when you tried to boot with it. I would favor the second option. What you can do is boot into your Mandrake (according to the logs, lilo was correctly installed on your harddrive) and try to copy the contents of the bootdisk on the harddrive, and see if there is any failure. Then retry by hand to create the bootdisk. You may also format your floppy. My Mandrake install is on my second hard drive. Is this the problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks. I can't say for sure for I think it should work ok. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] Problem booting into RC1
Hello all, I was able to successfully install RC1. In the last part of the install, I created a bootdisk and then rebooted. However when I try to boot off the floppy into my Mandrake install all I get is: Loading vmlinuz. Boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue. My Mandrake install is on my second hard drive. Is this the problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks.
RE: [Cooker] Problem installing 9.0 rc1
I actually don't have a DVD ROM. The Mandrake install won't boot from
my primary CD ROM. But I hit Alt-F4 and I got the error message you
asked for:
4 HDC :Command Error: Status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
4 HDC :Command Error: Error=0x50
6 End_Request:I/O error, dev 16:00(HDC), sector (1225708)
And then it just repeats, but the only difference is that the sectors
are different.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: September 9, 2002 5:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Trevor Ramoutar
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Problem installing 9.0 rc1
Trevor Ramoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks Tom you were right. If I run the install CD's off my
secondary CD-ROM then the install works perfectly. Weird
though...
Can you help us troubleshoot this problem by retrying with your
DVD driver, switch ton console #4 (Alt-F4) and tell us the
problems/failures you see reported by the kernel? Thanks!
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
RE: [Cooker] Problem booting into RC1
I grabbed the report.bug.gz from /root/drakx. It should be attached. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 9, 2002 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Problem booting into RC1 Trevor Ramoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I was able to successfully install RC1. In the last part of the install, I created a bootdisk and then rebooted. However when I try to boot off the floppy into my Mandrake install all I get is: Loading vmlinuz. Boot failed: Please change disks and press a key to continue. My Mandrake install is on my second hard drive. Is this the problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks. can you attach the report.bug? to get it: during install, switch to console 2, put a dos floppy in floppy drive, and type bug - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests us you can also get it after the install in /root/drakx/ -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ report.bug.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
[Cooker] Problem installing 9.0 rc1
Hello all, I downloaded the latest ISO, and the CD burned with no problems. However once I start in the graphical install I receive the following error: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably a hardware error while reading the data. (This may be caused by a hardware failure or a linux kernel bug) I have no clue what went wrong. I haven't had this problem with any other distros so I'm quite lost. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Trevor.
