I haven't found any info yet.
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From: Mandrake7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Aaron Peterson' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:54 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie]
Yes I have the same problem it cant make a ramdisk and when I amlooking
in the log said the same thinks 4hdb: drive not ready for command
4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339
and other stuff like this I am using a via chipset and a dvd rom gd2500
any solutions?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Peterson
Sent: , 11 2001 1:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie]
Hello,
This is a problem I haven't been able to solve.
Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1
expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free.
Unfortuantely,
after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable
CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the
CD-ROM. The error message is as follows:
I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive.
By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages:
4ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well
4hdb: Status timed-out
4hdb: DMA Disabled
4hdb: drive not ready for command
4isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339
and other stuff like this
If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I
guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest.
Thanks.
/
He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current.
CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master
This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We
tried
two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad.
Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom.
/
First of all, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I built the
computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate
primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux
partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having
trouble
with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I
think
that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image
file
- the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble
booting
from the CD-ROM. I got an email from Eric Sandall and I asked him what
the
situation is with getting rides to the Installfest and what all
peripherials
we need to bring. I can bring my Mandrake 8.1 CD's, but do I need to
bring
anything else besides my tower (i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse)? Anyway,
thanks for the help.
Travis Chamberlain
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Travis Chamberlain
From: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Travis Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LUG] Mandrake 8.1 installation problem
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:36:29 -0800
boot disk and bootable
CD-ROM,
a boot disk is not required with a bootable CD-ROM
newer Computers can boot from the CD-rom.
go into the bios to enable boot off CDt.
delete or a function key will get you into the bios.
(good stuff to include in any request for help)
What disk image did you use?
What kind of computer do you have?
-installfest is on 11-14-2001 we can help more then.
Oh, for trouble shooting... does your windows cd boot?
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