Kees de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guillaume Cottenceau writes:
>
> > Kees de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > after downloading the complete distribution of Mandrake 7.2 and creating
> > > the ISO images I got the following error(s) while loading the second stage
> > > ramdisk (copy of screen output of install process):
> > >
> > > * mounting ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2
> > > * creating directory /tmp/stage2 rc = 0
> > > * calling mount(/tmp/ram3, /tmp/stage2, ext2, 1058209792, (nil))
> > > * removing device file /tmp/ram3
> > > * method selection completed
> > > * state saved to /tmp
> > > * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed
> > > * error in exec of second stage loader :-(
> > > * error:Not a directory
> > >
> > > After this nothing happens anymore. So, I downloaded the ISO images (maybe
> > > I didn't created the ISO images correctly) but the same error occurs. This
> > > is with the following hardware:
> >
> > Can you see on console 4 and 5 if there is any relevant kernel messages?
> > I can't understand anything from now..
>
> If I recall correctly console 4 or 5 showed lots of EXT2 messages about
> corrupted nodes or something. I tried to scoll but couldn't. All I know was
> that it were EXT2 error messages about the image it tried to load.
>
> This was with both the home-made and downloaded ISO images.
Got it. If the filesystem seems corrupted I can't do nothing.
Probably an issue with the kernel and udma stuff, no? Try to tweak your
bios.
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Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
