Re: [newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-10 Thread Owen Berio
Please resend! My providers server was down from March 8th till this morning. All mail sent to me during this period was lost. Sorry for the inconvenience but please send me or repost any help sent during this time. Thanks, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:21 pm, Owen Berio wrote: Please resend! My providers server was down from March 8th till this morning. All mail sent to me during this period was lost. Sorry for the inconvenience but please send me or repost any help sent during this time. Thanks,

[newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-07 Thread Owen Berio
With 9.1 I had no problem booting with the graphic format. I just did what I think was a correct upgrade using three disks to version 9.2 But instead of the usual screen for logging on I get the following. A menu listing the following linux - nonfb floppy 2421-13 old_linux old_linux- nonfb

Re: [newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-07 Thread Owen Berio
Dennis and Mark, Thanks for the advise. It didn't resolve my problem but it did point to the cause of the problem. After logging in and typing X I got the following results XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 9 May 2003 X Protocal Version 11, revision 0, Release 6,6 Build Operating System:

Re: [newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 07 March 2004 09:20 pm, Owen Berio wrote: Dennis and Mark, Thanks for the advise. It didn't resolve my problem but it did point to the cause of the problem. After logging in and typing X I got the following results XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 9 May 2003 X Protocal

[newbie] boot problem

2003-07-04 Thread chris
Hi all I can't boot in single user and multiple users. but I can boot linux=/sbin/init In this mode, I couldn't change and move file (it saids that it reads only) How can I do it? Can I apply it for other linux distribution? thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] Boot Problem: cannot mount root fs

2002-02-07 Thread Michael F. Aube
Hello everyone, I have been using Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my Dell Laptop for almost a year now. I set it up as a dual boot with Windows ME. It has a single 10 GB hard drive. Last weekend I tried to install a software package using Windows ME, and it locked up the machine. I had to physically

Re: [newbie] Boot Problem

2001-07-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On July 20, 2001 12:04 am, Juan Carlos Conde wrote: Hello All. I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0. Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE. After that I can not choose to boot Linux now. How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name). If you don't have boot disk, as

[newbie] Boot Problem

2001-07-19 Thread Juan Carlos Conde
Hello All. I had a dual boot with Win98 and LM8.0. Today I delete Win98 and I install Win98SE. After that I can not choose to boot Linux now. How can I restore the Boot Manager (I belive LILO is its name). TIA.

Re: [newbie] Boot Problem

2001-07-19 Thread skinky
I hope someone can help you. I too would love to know. Good luck. Regards skinky - Original Message - From: Juan Carlos Conde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:34 AM Subject: [newbie] Boot Problem Hello All. I had a dual boot

RE: [newbie] boot problem

2000-12-06 Thread Kelly, Christopher
, 2000 11:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] boot problem Yup! - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:55 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] boot problem Did you create a boot disk in t

RE: [newbie] boot problem

2000-12-05 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Did you create a boot disk in the install? -Original Message- From: Sam Bridgman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] boot problem Hello: Have Linux-Mandrake 7.2, use System Commander 2000 from V

[newbie] boot problem

2000-12-05 Thread Sam Bridgman
Hello: Have Linux-Mandrake 7.2, use System Commander 2000 from V-Communication for a multi-boot system with four other operating system, I install 7.2 twice everything whent O. K. I think it installed O. K., but when the install get to bootloader it skip it, Question how do I get to

RE: [newbie] boot problem

2000-12-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
05, 2000 12:26 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] boot problem Hello: Have Linux-Mandrake 7.2, use System Commander 2000 from V-Communication for a multi-boot system with four other operating system, I install 7.2 twice everything whent O. K. I think it installed O. K

Re: [newbie] boot problem

2000-12-05 Thread Adam Willcox
Yup! - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:55 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] boot problem Did you create a boot disk in the install? -Original Message- From: Sam Bridgman [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] Boot problem

2000-05-22 Thread Ian Green
I'm new here, so sorry if this repeats any threads. Ok, I have a dual boot W98/Mandrake 7. Lilo defaults to Mandrake, and both exist on the same HD. Everything was fine, but now Mandrake fails to boot, and the following is what seems to be relevant from the boot sequence - after this it

RE: [newbie] boot problem

2000-05-04 Thread Eduardo Arauz
-Original Message- From: Eduardo Arauz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:54 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:[newbie] boot problem I m trying to boot my linux mandrake 6.1 and it sends me an error like this: unable to mount root

[newbie] boot problem

2000-05-03 Thread Eduardo Arauz
I m trying to boot my linux mandrake 6.1 and it sends me an error like this: unable to mount root on .. or something like that and then stop the loading what can be the problem??? and how i can boot if i havent any recovery disk

[newbie] boot problem

2000-03-24 Thread Sastre, Carlos Eduardo (Carlos)
we have installed linux mandrake 6.0. During the installation procedure we have made a rescue disk (fortunatelly), now we can open applications etc etc, the problem is the systeme is unable to boot by it self, only with the rescue disk. how do we do for the systeme boot by it self, or where do we

RE: [newbie] Boot problem

2000-02-24 Thread Pittman, Merle
-Original Message- From: bryn jones [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 6:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Boot problem I have just installed LINUX on a quite old TwinHead laptop (75MHz Pentium 24 Mb memory) The installation

RE: [newbie] Boot problem

2000-02-24 Thread Pittman, Merle
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Boot problem I have just installed LINUX on a quite old TwinHead laptop (75MHz Pentium 24 Mb memory) The installation seemed to work OK and gave me the message Installation successful. On reboot I get LI on the screen and then it hangs. I

[newbie] Boot problem

2000-02-23 Thread bryn jones
I have just installed LINUX on a quite old TwinHead laptop (75MHz Pentium 24 Mb memory) The installation seemed to work OK and gave me the message Installation successful. On reboot I get LI on the screen and then it hangs. I have tried it as a workstation, server and custom. Help

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-27 Thread Joseph H Perry
MANY manufacturures (?) exagerrate the capacities of their drives by quoting the bare unformatted figure - totally unrealistic, as whatever file system you format a disk with it ALWAYS reduces in size - the larger the disk, the more scary the amount of size you lose. Can't think off the

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot problem On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've certainly never heard of SCSI being

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote: That URL might be about to contradict what i'm going to say, in which case i apologise (i don't have a great deal of time right now to check out the link). What kind of SCSI adapter do you have ?? (i also only caught the end of this thread). I have used

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread Martin White
[SNIP] Maybe your card needs to have large disk support enabled similar to the PC bios. I'm pretty damn sure i've set up Mandrake boxes with huge SCSI disks before now (well +10Gb anyhow). Just a thought !! And I appreciate it. It was sold to me as a 9.1 GB scsi, so that may be the

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, you wrote: Your accounting for HD manufactures, all failing math right, as in they don't count a megabyte as 1,024,000 but as 1,000,000? Hmm...nope. :-) Good point. But would that be enough to bring me down 600 megs? Just wondering... :-) John

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
I think one gigabyte (i.e. 2 raised to the 30th power) would be 1.074 billion bytes. So if an HD manufacturer did a dishonest thing and reported his disk's capacity as billions of bytes rather than gigabytes base 2, he would be over by about 7%, which is pretty close to what you're seeing (7% of

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote: I'm not sure if it will help with the boot problem, but I know from learning the hard way that older bios (ie. back when the pentium pro was popular) can't recognize disks larger than G. Before that I think there was another size

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've certainly never heard of SCSI being affected by the IDE BIOS limitations... Right...I confirmed it with my tech this afternoon. :-) His feeling is that the limitation on drive size in SCSI is the Operating