Yes, from what I have researched, I must try another distro, as you have suggested. I would like to try Mandrake 8.2 as I have been advised this should work and you seem to have confirmed it below.
Thanks everyone.
At 10:28 AM 12/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 01:02, Barclay Hambrook wrote: > trying to install Mandrake 9 as single OS > > Errors I rec'd are: > > xFree86-4.2.1-emdk.i586 > > clicked thru to: > > "Where to install bootloader?" > > Tried First Sector of Drive MBR and got error mkinitrd failed. > > Any suggestions?yes, try a different distro. apparently there are some motherboards that MDK9.0 has problems with (this exact problem, actually). MDK8.2 worked on them, as does (apparently) SuSe, Red Hat and others... so it seems to be a MDK9.0 issue, probably to be fixed in 9.1 ... so, try a different distro perhaps... - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE96kbN1rcusafx20MRAkxCAJ9AJRWVs8+fFeGbFBZVincHOkmHdQCeOEhi di9n55XvQSNIM/I3rOcSU84= =lrqC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 11/25/2002
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