Re: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
this point) and after selecting the partitions you want again, it gives the
error "DiskDrake failed to read correctly the partition table. Continue at
your own risk!" After this, I'm able to setup my partitions (excluding the
the pb is:
4 hda: unknown partition table
the kernel doesn't understand the partition table, whereas diskdrake does. Never
had this pb before :-/
can you send me the first sector of hda?
("dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/mbr count=1" will do it)
RE: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Cooker, On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows 2000 partition - any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive where Windows occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake, I created a swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to format those two partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive) and then all my partitions were gone. i'm interested by this error! can you mail me the report.bug? to get it: during install, switch to console 2, put a fat floppy in floppy drive, and type "bug" - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :) (it will include the error message) thanks, cu Pixel. Hello Pixel, Sorry to be so late with this :( Anyway, I've played with the setup several times and found that if I choose to check for 'bad blocks' then the setup will go through from there. It seems to be that choosing not to check for bad blocks is what causes the problem. The error that I saw on the screen was "An error occured swap area needs to be" and that's it. I've attached the report.bug like you asked and now I'm going to try to do a normal install. :) thanks, Mike report.bug
RE: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Cooker, On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows 2000 partition - any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive where Windows occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake, I created a swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to format those two partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive) and then all my partitions were gone. i'm interested by this error! can you mail me the report.bug? to get it: during install, switch to console 2, put a fat floppy in floppy drive, and type "bug" - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :) (it will include the error message) thanks, cu Pixel. Hello Pixel, Sorry to be so late with this :( Anyway, I've played with the setup several times and found that if I choose to check for 'bad blocks' then the setup will go through from there. It seems to be that choosing not to check for bad blocks is what causes the problem. The error that I saw on the screen was "An error occured swap area needs to be" and that's it. I've attached the report.bug like you asked and now I'm going to try to do a normal install. :) thanks, Mike Me again Pixel! Evidently it doesn't have anything to do with the 'bad block' being selected or not; however, if you keep going instead of rebooting, it gives you a clear slate to re-partition with (it's already wiped the partition table at this point) and after selecting the partitions you want again, it gives the error "DiskDrake failed to read correctly the partition table. Continue at your own risk!" After this, I'm able to setup my partitions (excluding the Windows 2000 partition which I'll have to reload later), and formatting begins then it moves on to the packages like normal. I was able to install to a friends computer with these same CD's without problem. It was a triple boot setup with Win98/Win2k/MDK7.2 on a 1GHz Athlon/256MB RAM. I'm really confused! But attached is another report.bug, so hopefully it will make more sense to you? Thanks again, Mike report.bug
Re: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
Was you'r win2k partition ntfs? or fat32 personaly i havnt had a problem with the install of mdk 7.2 final and win2k though mine was a fat32 Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello Cooker, On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows 2000 partition - any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive where Windows occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake, I created a swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to format those two partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive) and then all my partitions were gone. I hit 'exit installation' from the side bar instead of using any of the options on diskdrake and when I booted back up, windows was gone. I've done this several times in the past, so it wasn't a 'slip of the mouse'. Mike
Re: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Cooker, On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows 2000 partition - any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive where Windows occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake, I created a swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to format those two partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive) and then all my partitions were gone. i'm interested by this error! can you mail me the report.bug? to get it: during install, switch to console 2, put a fat floppy in floppy drive, and type "bug" - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :) (it will include the error message) thanks, cu Pixel.
RE: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
i'm interested by this error! can you mail me the report.bug? to get it: during install, switch to console 2, put a fat floppy in floppy drive, and type "bug" - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :) (it will include the error message) thanks, cu Pixel. I will do that first thing tonight after work. Mike
RE: [Cooker] 7.2 final??
It was FAT32 because I wanted to be able to write to it from mdk without any problems. Mike Was you'r win2k partition ntfs? or fat32 personaly i havnt had a problem with the install of mdk 7.2 final and win2k though mine was a fat32 Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello Cooker, On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows 2000 partition - any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive where Windows occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake, I created a swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to format those two partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive) and then all my partitions were gone. I hit 'exit installation' from the side bar instead of using any of the options on diskdrake and when I booted back up, windows was gone. I've done this several times in the past, so it wasn't a 'slip of the mouse'. Mike
Re: [Cooker] 7.2-final install failure (ftp pcmcia)
Michael Elkins wrote: Attempted to an ftp install with the pcmcia.img boot disk of: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/dimension/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=691 Use NFS instead, that worked for me on T500CDT. Pierre
Re: [Cooker] 7.2-final install failure (ftp pcmcia)
Michael Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attempted to an ftp install with the pcmcia.img boot disk of: Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-i586 20001027 15:20 After successfully retrieving mkdinst_stage2.gz, the install freezes up when attempting to load the second stage installer. On virtual terminal three, I see the following log: * mounting ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2 * creating directory /tmp/stage2 rc = 0 * calling mount(/tmp/ram3, /tmp/stage2, ext2, -1058209792, (nil)) * removing device file /tmp/ram3 * method selection completed * writing network information to /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * state saved to /tmp * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed It means that it can't find Mandrake/mdkinst from the install medium. After that, in the first virtual terminal I see: install exited abnormally -- received signal 9 sendinger termination signals...done (etc) This is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 460 CDT. Mandrake 7.1 has been working perfectly on this same system. Is it reproductible with different FTP sites? -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] 7.2-final install failure (ftp pcmcia)
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:39:51PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Michael Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attempted to an ftp install with the pcmcia.img boot disk of: Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-i586 20001027 15:20 After successfully retrieving mkdinst_stage2.gz, the install freezes up when attempting to load the second stage installer. On virtual terminal three, I see the following log: * mounting ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2 * creating directory /tmp/stage2 rc = 0 * calling mount(/tmp/ram3, /tmp/stage2, ext2, -1058209792, (nil)) * removing device file /tmp/ram3 * method selection completed * writing network information to /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * state saved to /tmp * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed It means that it can't find Mandrake/mdkinst from the install medium. I was under the impression that when you do a FTP install it retreives the mdkinst_stage2.gz from the server and uses it as a ramdisk? The file I have appears to be the same as those on the mirror sites. Here is the MD5 sum: c3e7d2341144c2c797d15e1f16ee88b9 mdkinst_stage2.gz After that, in the first virtual terminal I see: install exited abnormally -- received signal 9 sendinger termination signals...done (etc) This is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 460 CDT. Mandrake 7.1 has been working perfectly on this same system. Is it reproductible with different FTP sites? Unforutnately all the FTP mirrors are busy so I can't retest this. I used rsync to mirror the tree from ftp.wtfo.com yesterday. Then used a local ftp server to attempt the install. me
Re: [Cooker] 7.2-final install failure (ftp pcmcia)
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attempted to an ftp install with the pcmcia.img boot disk of: Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-i586 20001027 15:20 After successfully retrieving mkdinst_stage2.gz, the install freezes up when attempting to load the second stage installer. On virtual terminal three, I see the following log: * mounting ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2 * creating directory /tmp/stage2 rc = 0 * calling mount(/tmp/ram3, /tmp/stage2, ext2, -1058209792, (nil)) * removing device file /tmp/ram3 * method selection completed * writing network information to /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * state saved to /tmp * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed It means that it can't find Mandrake/mdkinst from the install medium. Me big lamer. Of course your error is coming from a problem loading the ramdisk, you must have not enough memory. Next release will handle much better error detection at that stage. Sorry. -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] 7.2-final install failure (ftp pcmcia)
[Original sent yesterday; resending since it did not appear on the list...] Michael Elkins wrote: Attempted to an ftp install with the pcmcia.img boot disk of: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/dimension/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=691 Use NFS instead, that worked for me on T500CDT. Pierre
