Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux
These things being said this fact begs a serious and important question. Why in the world are they doing it at all? Continuing to do so is never going to help their standing in the world of desktop OS market share. You're absolutely right. I suspect its done because they realize that lots of Windows users know nothing about disk partitions and the like. Messages here indicate this is a major problem for people. Still, running Linux from a Windows partition is silly and it's clear that trying to do so has turned off a lot of people to Linux. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux
Actually I wish the good folks at Mandrake wouldn't even offer this type of installation choice. This is my opinion of course, but in doing so it makes an extremely wonderful, dependable, powerful product look like crap I second that. I see so many people here having trouble with this that Mandrake (and the others that provide this) aren't doing anyone any favors by letting you do it. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux
Actually I wish the good folks at Mandrake wouldn't even offer this type of installation choice. This is my opinion of course, but in doing so it makes an extremely wonderful, dependable, powerful product look like crap I second that. I see so many people here having trouble with this that Mandrake (and the others that provide this) aren't doing anyone any favors by letting you do it. Cheers --- Larry These things being said this fact begs a serious and important question. Why in the world are they doing it at all? Continuing to do so is never going to help their standing in the world of desktop OS market share. Mark
Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux
The best thing you can do in this situation is install Linux on it's own partition instead of installing it behind a DOS partition. It's less work and far less headache then the way you're attempting to do it now. lnx4win is VERY buggy at the moment and to tell you the truth IMHO it's the worst kind of Linux installation anyone could ever use. Even if you did get it running you wouldn't be very happy with it cause it WILL run slow and be quite sluggish, not to mention buggy. lnx4win, in my experience runs worse than windows. Actually I wish the good folks at Mandrake wouldn't even offer this type of installation choice. This is my opinion of course, but in doing so it makes an extremely wonderful, dependable, powerful product look like crap and not worth the time or trouble of installation. Kind-a like shooting one's self in the foot cause you're pissed for missing the deer you were aiming at while hunting. Just my humble opinion of course and its guarenteed that others will differ on this subject. Install Mandrake on it's own partition and I guarentee you'll fall in love with the Penguin just like the rest of us on this list did. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Robert Khazzam wrote: I'm having trouble booting up mandrake linux which is installed on my windows 98 machine (lnx4win). When booting up I got the following error msg's. "Root fs not mounted", "VFS:Cannot open root device 07:07", "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07" After i get these msg's the computer just freezes and kde never starts and i end up rebooting, can anyone help me, please!
