On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:15, Duncan wrote: > On Thu 20 Mar 2003 07:10, Enrico Galli posted as excerpted below: > > I have the following PC configuration > > Processor AMD Athlon 1800 > > HD Samsung SP 600 3H 60 GB > [] > > When I try to install Mandrake 9.0 it stop it when it check HD partition. > > > > Is this problem occur because Samsung HD is not developed by Mandrake > > drivers? > > Hard drives are pretty much standardized, now. They are either EIDE or SCSI, > and take fairly generic drivers, unless you have some sort of hardware RAID, > which can be an issue, but that's not the hard drive, it's the RAID > controller that's the issue. > > It may be an issue with an error on your current partitions, however. I'd > suggest either erasing them and starting clean, if you don't have a Windows > or other partition you want to keep, or running scandisk and defrag (assuming > Windows) to make sure what you have is as error free as possible before going > further. You may also wish to try something like the proprietary-ware > Partition Magic. I had good experiences with them, b4 I switched off of > proprietary-ware and onto software libre such as Mandrake. I'd bought > another product, Partition It, which basically screwed things up, but > Partition Magic was able to fix the problem without me having to know exactly > what it was and get into the details. > > That said, this is the Cooker list, for betas, not the install help or > Mandrake Expert forum. Mandrake 9.1 just came out, so cooker would be going > on 9.2 now, and you are asking here about 9.0? I'd help you if I could, but > I'm on this list and not the install list for a reason -- I don't know that > much about install problems. Therefore, the guess above about it being an > error on the current partition, with the suggestions following it, is about > the best I can do.
However, I have the same problem with a laptop where 2.4.19 boots fine and there is no file system corruption (reiserfs partitions). 2.4.21 refuses to boot further than the HD check. This is a real problem since the install floppy uses the same kernel and does not boot either. There is no way I can update this machine. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3388 -- _ _ _ _ | |_____| | |_/ | | / / -_) | / / | |_\_\___|_|_\_\_| @ sbcglobal.net
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