-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 19:02, Quel Qun wrote: > 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 try to disable dma, this worked for me - -- Regards, Per �yvind Karlsen Sintrax Solutions http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
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