[newbie] please help: Mandrake installation
hello every body: I'm a newbie to linux/mandrake,after I have installed Mandrake 7.2,every thing seems successful,but my excitement only last a few seconds. when reboot after Mandrake installation,my hard drive can not startup! some of the error messages appear on screen as follow: ... sh: /usr/lib/libd.so.2: no version information available(required by sh) ... sh: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol: _dl_global_scope_end ... INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel any help is appreciated! Michael
Re: [newbie] please help: Mandrake installation
On Friday 22 December 2000 19:02, you wrote: hello every body: I'm a newbie to linux/mandrake,after I have installed Mandrake 7.2,every thing seems successful,but my excitement only last a few seconds. when reboot after Mandrake installation,my hard drive can not startup! some of the error messages appear on screen as follow: ... sh: /usr/lib/libd.so.2: no version information available(required by sh) ... sh: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol: _dl_global_scope_end ... INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel any help is appreciated! Michael Your disk drive is toast or your memory is bad. Check the memory first, but it looks like a lot of compounded disk write errors. GNU/Linux is much much less forgiving of hardware errors than any other op system It always tries to use ALL of memory for something because its philosophy is that usused memory is wasted memory, so it shows up memory errors that existed undetected fior months or years on a Windows system (undetected, that is, except for modem freezes and game crashes). If the memory is good, try a reinstall, hit F1 at the splash screen and type either linux idebus=33 or linux ide0=noautotune to avoid the problems of a disk advertising that it can do ATA/66 (with errors) when it can do ATA/33 without. Civileme Content-Type: text/html; charset="gb2312"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] please help: Mandrake installation
when I try to look up the partition using pqmagic, it report partition error!(I have used pqmagic to do some partition operations).at last I delete all the partition except c using fdisk and reinstall mandrake, you guess what? it works!!! you'll have to be very careful when using the partition tool such as pqmagic. as the next step,i'll install my sound card and modem... thank you anyway. Michael - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] please help: Mandrake installation On Friday 22 December 2000 19:02, you wrote: hello every body: I'm a newbie to linux/mandrake,after I have installed Mandrake 7.2,every thing seems successful,but my excitement only last a few seconds. when reboot after Mandrake installation,my hard drive can not startup! some of the error messages appear on screen as follow: ... sh: /usr/lib/libd.so.2: no version information available(required by sh) ... sh: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol: _dl_global_scope_end ... INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel any help is appreciated! Michael Your disk drive is toast or your memory is bad. Check the memory first, but it looks like a lot of compounded disk write errors. GNU/Linux is much much less forgiving of hardware errors than any other op system It always tries to use ALL of memory for something because its philosophy is that usused memory is wasted memory, so it shows up memory errors that existed undetected fior months or years on a Windows system (undetected, that is, except for modem freezes and game crashes). If the memory is good, try a reinstall, hit F1 at the splash screen and type either linux idebus=33 or linux ide0=noautotune to avoid the problems of a disk advertising that it can do ATA/66 (with errors) when it can do ATA/33 without. Civileme Content-Type: text/html; charset="gb2312"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description:
[newbie] Please help with installation...
I am a newbie to this Linux thing. In the past I have used Win95, which I feel comfortable with, but now I'am after a better, more stable OS. For this I chose Mandrake 6.0. My problem is installation, which I have spent the past 4-5 days trying to accomplish, before I explain my problem I will give you a brief description of my system, just in case it is something obvious that's wrong: Cyrix 6x86 P150+ 32 Mb RAM 2.1 Gb HD (master) 420 Mb HD (slave) - with old Windows files on (*.doc, .etc.) Acer Acerview 33D monitor (14") Atapi 4x CD-ROM Soundblaster 16 sound card 56K clone modem Scanner Interface card HP Deskjet 690C Diamond 3D 200 PRO graphics card I think that's about it Anyway, I install virtually all of Mandrake, with a disk partition of 64Mb swap and the rest native (/) on the 2.1Gb. The 420Mb is called "/dos" with all my docs and stuff on. I then configure the rest of the OS - printer, mouse, graphics, etc After about an hour of installation, the time has come to reboot the machine, so I take out all boot media... and log in as root. This is when the problem arises. Sometimes all I get is a nice blue screen with my cross in the middle - this doesn't go anywhere, so I have to reset, which completey screws it all up and back to re-installing. Or, I can get in, change permissions for all to shutdown the machine, logout and then it crashes, so I have to reset, screwing it up again and back to re-installing. Or, finally, I can get in and shutdown and then it dies on me... What to do? It's getting a tad bring now, unfortunately!! If I have to reset, and lucky enough to get back in, then I'm offered a different "log-in Window", which doesn't allow me as many options, and I can never get the original back!! Could it be a problem with my BIOS? - I'm pretty sure it's set properly. Hardware problem? Installation problem? Should I not boot into X? A problem with me?!?!?! I think I've tried everything now. Cheers, Andy -- Andrew Weller M.Sc. Computing in Earth Sciences Dept. of Earth Sciences Keele University Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. (+44) 01782 246883
