"R. Scott Chevalley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also have been having a problem with the 9.0 beta iso images. > I've burned about 5 copies of it and none of them will install. > It will get to the Loading program box, the bar graph will go 60% > across and then I'll get an error about not being able to execute > /usr/bin/runinstall2. I was able to get cooker install from a
Means that the install image is only read up to 60%. It should be interesting to read info from console #3 and #4, there is probably a hardware read problem on the cdrom drive... > local hard drive mirror copy, but not from cd. I think it may be > the DMA settings for the IDE controller because I can get passed > that point using the 2.2 kernel, but it doesn't recognize > reiserfs partitions. I have not found a way of disabling DMA on > the CDROM drive yet... hdc=nodma or ide1=nodma doesn't work. Yes, this diagnostic seems probable. But `nodma' should be working.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
