Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-25 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:06 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: >snips< Femme: Give me a call when the price drops to $10. That must include the necessary adapters and drivers to upgrade the various offsprings' collection of proprietary and two-guys-and-a-goat POS. (Ever try to find a BIOS upgrade for a TMC motherboard?)

Re: [newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you don't mind, please send to the lists at linux-mandrake, not mandrake-linux. I've not taken the time to setup my filters to catch everything (to anyone reading this with the full regexp string to catch the variations this list passes, I'd be

Re: [newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:19:32 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you don't mind, please send to the lists at linux-mandrake, not > mandrake-linux. I've not taken the time to setup my filters to catch > everything (to anyone reading this

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 10:50 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > Never had much joy with LS120 drives - kept going out of alignment > and then wouldn't read the 120MB disks or write to the floppies - > Linux or Win. Ditched them after the second failure. > It's funny, isn't it, that whatever you talk a

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 11:29 pm, ed tharp wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the > > > > curren

Re: [newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
On 24 Jun 2003 22:17:08 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:28, C. Tresenriter wrote: > > I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play > > with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : > > EXT3-fs error (de

Re: [newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:28, C. Tresenriter wrote: > I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play > with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : > EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - > inode 2590

[newbie] Boot error

2003-06-24 Thread C. Tresenriter
I just re-booted to hdd - 9.0 install - to look at settings for sylpheed and play with xmms. When I tried to get back into 9.1, it halted with : EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode 259074, block 524290 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Two

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Never had much joy with LS120 drives - kept going out of alignment and then wouldn't read the 120MB disks or write to the floppies - Linux or Win. Ditched them after the second failure. DougB On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 June 2003 03:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > > > > > > Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes > > > wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time > > > just figuring how to get into the #$*&! Dell s

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:32:56 +0100 Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch > > floppy. God, I haven't seen one of those since my mom took a computer course for work when I was 10. She used a "Wang" computer... I always t

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current > > > Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options!

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you > know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;D They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. (yes, I have, and for those who assume

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: > Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes > wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time > just figuring how to get into the #$*&! Dell so Daddy can use > toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the > > > current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current > > Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may > > make sense in a corporate environment, but it s

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current > Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may > make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is > certainly going to complicate troubl

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: > I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the > message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive > error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and > hdc are there

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the > message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: > drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both > hda and hdc are ther

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Graham Banks
Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am p

[newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what dr

Re: [newbie] "Boot error" after Installation of 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 13:26, you wrote: > Last night I installed 8.1. When I boot I get only "Boot error" displayed > on the screen. I did create a boot floppy and it will boot from that. > Prior to Mandrake I had free BSD installed. > > It is installed on an IBM 390X laptop with 128 MB

[newbie] "Boot error" after Installation of 8.1

2001-11-21 Thread Mike Myers
  Last night I installed 8.1.  When I boot I get only "Boot error" displayed on the screen.  I did create a boot floppy and it will boot from that.  Prior to Mandrake I had free BSD installed.   It is installed on an IBM 390X laptop with 128 MB ram and 6.4 GB Drive.   I have installed it twi

Re: [newbie] boot error

2001-04-13 Thread Dave
Thanks CB, I got your private response. For what it's worth, the relative insecurity of Linux at the console is well-known, even to this newbie. There are workarounds, of course, such as making it boot from the primary hard drive only, and password-protecting the BIOS so no one can change it t

Re: [newbie] boot error

2001-04-12 Thread CB
"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: > > Have you tried at boot up to run linux single?. That should get you started. To find the answer I duplicated the problem he had. The answer is no, you can't specify runlevel 1, nor can you specify init=/bin/sh. The problem is that in all of these methods, the linu

RE: [newbie] boot error

2001-04-12 Thread Mcintosh, Duncan
Have you tried at boot up to run linux single?. That should get you started. > -Message d'origine- > De: Dave [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: vendredi 13 avril 2001 07:08 > À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet: [newbie] boot error > > Well, I blew it. I i

[newbie] boot error

2001-04-12 Thread Dave
Well, I blew it. I installed Cygnus GnuPro Dev Kit on my system, and now it won't boot! Here's the actual situation: After installation of the software, I had to modify a couple of environment variables. I added an entry to the /etc/ld.so.preload file (I had to create the file first), but unf

Re: [newbie] Boot Error

2000-02-29 Thread Audrey Beck
You need to install lilo to hda in this case. You need something to boot from. hda1 is the actual partition for /. "Potts, Ross" wrote: > > I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is > a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 7

[newbie] Boot Error

2000-02-29 Thread Potts, Ross
I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 72 Megs of memory. It has a 1.6 Gig HDD. Previously I had it configured to boot FreeBSD, but I decided to try MDK 7.0. I went thru the installat