Alan Shoemaker wrote: > I have an 8.2 customer in mandrakeexpert asking this > question. Does anyone know of this 'Mandrake-acknowledged > problem' or the answer to his question, 'is this problem > fixed in distro 9.0'? Thanks. > > ----quoted text below---- > > My homePC is a Gateway with Athlon 650. The > motherboard model is Kadoka. There is a > Mandrake-acknowledged problem with all 8.x distros > using the 2.4.x kernel, involving this board - > Mandrake have stated explicitly that it will not > run (basically it installs OK then hangs at INIT > whatever you do). [snip]
I wouldn't know if this is a "Mandrake-acknowledged" problem or not, I'm just relating my experience with a similar system I have a Gateway box with a 1000Mhz Athlon and Kadoka Jabil motherboard. It exhibited the exact same problem he descibed when booting 8.x. However, 9.0rc2 does work, albeit with the following problems: (1) While using devfs, the system will hang when I attempt to login as any user except root. Booting with "devfs=nomount" works around this problem. (2) The system also hangs if I try to use the Mandrake control center. Please note that I have no idea if these problems are in any way related to the motherboard. (I don't really know enough about Mandrake or Linux to tell). I just thought he might like to know before attempting to install 9.0 on similar Gateway hardware.
