Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 install hangs after IDE detection
I have remade the boot floppy from the CD and from downloaded files from the linux-mandrake site. The behavior does not change. At 09:34 PM 7/24/01, you wrote: Your machine's getting old, but I have had Mandrake 8.0 working on a similar machine. My guess would be that it is bad media. Quoting Kevin R. Bulgrien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a system that successfully boots Mandrake 7.2... I want to install 8.0 instead, so I have the boot floppy and a bootable CD. I can boot both types of media. All installation choices fail with a hard system hang immediately after the system detects the IDE devices in the system. No error messages are displayed. Win98 works fine, Mandrake 7.2 works fine. What might be causing this low-level failure in the install process. I do not have cutting edge hardware... AMD K6-166, 96MB RAM, Advansys SCSI controller, SMC ISA 10MB NIC, ISA soundblaster AWE 64, ATI XPert 98 PCI video card. All the messages I have seen regarding installation failures seem to imply that other people get farther than I do... Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin R. Bulgrien CPUTYPE=AMD K6-166 COMPSPEED=166 MHz MEMRAM=96Mb DRIVES=Western Digital 4GB and Fujitsu 2GB PRINTERS=Canon BJC-600; BIOS=Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG12/04/97 DISPLAY=ATI Rage 128 GL SD PCI (English); MULTIMEDIA=Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio (SB16 compatible) CDROM=IDE and SCSI CDWriter on Advansys SCSI card MODEM=Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem;Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem; NETCARD=ISA SMC EtherEZ (8416); MONITOR=Super VGA 1280x1024; KEYBOARD=Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboar
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 install hangs after IDE detection
The install locks up the system only on the Western Digital WDC AC24300 drive. Various utilities report that there are no errors on that drive, though the Disk Minder utility whines about the boot loader not being present even though Grub works just fine. If I temporarily take the WD drive out and switch the Fujitsu to be the master drive, the install will not lock the system up, but, that is not the drive I want to install on... The onscreen message log is: --- block: queued sectors max/low 62581kB/20860kB, 192 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes : override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 PCI: Assigned IRQ 14 for device 00:01.1 SIS5513: chipset revision 208 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SiS5597 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio hda: WDC AC24300B, ATA DISK drive hdb: FUJITSU M1638TAU, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 --- At this point the system is locked up and only a power cycle will reset the system.
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 install hangs after IDE detection
I have a system that successfully boots Mandrake 7.2... I want to install 8.0 instead, so I have the boot floppy and a bootable CD. I can boot both types of media. All installation choices fail with a hard system hang immediately after the system detects the IDE devices in the system. No error messages are displayed. Win98 works fine, Mandrake 7.2 works fine. What might be causing this low-level failure in the install process. I do not have cutting edge hardware... AMD K6-166, 96MB RAM, Advansys SCSI controller, SMC ISA 10MB NIC, ISA soundblaster AWE 64, ATI XPert 98 PCI video card. All the messages I have seen regarding installation failures seem to imply that other people get farther than I do... Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin R. Bulgrien CPUTYPE=AMD K6-166 COMPSPEED=166 MHz MEMRAM=96Mb DRIVES=Western Digital 4GB and Fujitsu 2GB PRINTERS=Canon BJC-600; BIOS=Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG12/04/97 DISPLAY=ATI Rage 128 GL SD PCI (English); MULTIMEDIA=Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio (SB16 compatible) CDROM=IDE and SCSI CDWriter on Advansys SCSI card MODEM=Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem;Zoom External 56K LT Voice Faxmodem; NETCARD=ISA SMC EtherEZ (8416); MONITOR=Super VGA 1280x1024; KEYBOARD=Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboar
Re: [newbie] rpmdrake (helium) does not add to install list
I have this part down... I know how to add new CD's, and how to give them meaningful names. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Spotlight/RpmDrake/ It is pretty clear about how things are SUPPOSED to work. The thing is, rpmdrake on my system DOES NOT work this way. It lets me insert the CD and give it a new name. Then it acts as though it is rebuilding the database of available packages, but when the "available to install" package tree comes up, it is EMPTY. Thanks for the thoughts, though... Yeah, I found out about the kicking back CD's if the wrong one was inserted, but, I still wanted it to ask for a meaningfully named CD. For that matter, I think it would be a great feature upgrade to allow the user to see which CD the item was on, so that if you didn't have the full set of CD's, you wouldn't have to try adding a package to see what disk it was on. What I really want to know, is how to put the original library back, since obviously the database was pre-existing as it contained the options for a 4 CD set when I only had 2 CD's in my set. Kevin Bulgrien At 11:42 AM 9/26/00 -0400, you wrote: Kevin, Errors I have made suggest a couple of possibilities for you. Pardon that I present scenarios rather than give exact answers. I don't know the exact answer, but perhaps something here will suggest a solution. I hope others on this list will also answer because I'm sure that there is a lot that I'm overlooking. If/when you do reinstall Linux, when adding RPM to the database of available packages (in RPMDRAK-configure (new)CD) it will kick a suggested name up before it rebuilds the CD database. Edit this box to a title more meaningful to you, the new name will be used in the future. Since there is nothing otherwise wrong with Linux, in RPMDRAK configure each CD again, using a more meaningful name. RPM programs available on each disk you do this for will be listed twice, but one will have a meaningful name. If you select an RPM package to install, stick in disks one at a time when it asks for a disk (assuming that you don't know exactly which disk it's asking for). If the disk you insert is the wrong one it will kick it out and ask again. When you find the one that works you now know it's ID and can write it on the jewelcase you store it in (I understand writing on the CD is a "no no"). -Gary-
[newbie] When an X app fails how do I view error messages?
When an X application running under GNOME fails, where do the error messages go, and how can I trap for them. I am running Mandrake 7.1 with a GUI login... Something's broke, and I am not sure how to view the messages.
[newbie] rpmdrake (helium) does not add to install list
I have a new Mandrake 7.1 installation. rpmdrake used non-meaningful descriptors for the CD's that it needed in order to install package. I. E. cdrom_1, cdrom_2, cdrom_3, cdrom_4. Like a newbie, I remembered that there were 4 CD's referenced in the initial installation, but, I had no idea what order they were in, so when it asked for cdrom_2, I had no idea which CD it really wanted. Well, like a newbie, I figure, heh, I can fix that, so I deleted the dumb titles and went to re-add the installation CD's into rpmdrake. Well, blat, rpmdrake will not add anything into the menu, so my install list is totally blank. I know it's at least looking at the cd, because it hollers if no CD is in the drive. From looking at the script, it seems to be expecting to look at /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/base for something, and sure enough, the CD's have what appear to be package tree information at that location. So, my question is an either or, I suppose... 1) Is it conceivable that I can restore the original package list, and how might I do that without doing a total reload (yeah, yeah, no, I didn't have a backup somewhere). -or- 2) Is rpmdrake broken? Is there a fix? -or- 3) Might I be doing something wrong. -or- 4) Am I asking the wrong questions? If so, what do I need to know. Thanks, Kevin R. Bulgrien
