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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
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Regards,
Per �yvind Karlsen
Sintrax Solutions
http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061
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