I'm not a newbie, but I'm no expert either (maybe slightly advanced). I
know just enough to be dangerous.
I am currently unable to get the installation of MDK 9.0 to work on my
home PC. I've tried a couple things with no success.
1. With my setup MDK8.2 installed fine, but with 9.0 it hangs just
after it detects the PCMCIA card during the boot off the CDs. It
doesn't seem to matter if I have a card it it or not. It posts the
following debug information:
....
loading module dependencies
PCMCIA: probing PCI bus ..
Texas Instruments PCI1225, 2 sockets (driver yenta_socket).
have to insmod pcmcia_core
needs pcmcia_core
succeeded pcmcia_core
have to insmod yenta_socket
needs yenta_socket
succeeded yenta_socket
have to insmod ds
needs ds
succeeded ds
CM: cardmgr/hacked staring, version is 3.1.29
CM: waching 2 sockets
CM: warning, Card Services release does not match kernel (generally
harmless)
CM: initializing socket 1
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This is where the machine completely locks up. If I remember correctly,
under MDK8.2 the module for the PCI/PCMCIA card reader was i82365(?).
Anyway it was made by Lucent Tech.
2. After getting this, the only way I could get it install was to remove
the PCMCIA card reader from the computer. Figured I could fight it
after I got the machine installed.
It installed fine; however whenever I try and boot I get the following
message:
....
EXT2_fs: unable to read superblock
mount: error 22 mounting ext2 flags
Freeing unsused kernel memory: 140k freed
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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Here is my configuration:
Dual 1GHz PIII Asus Mb w/ Seagate 40 Gb drive & Plextor CD drive
Matrox G450
Tekram PCI SCSI card w/ HP 1553A(?) 6 tape DAT changer.
SIIG PCI ATA133 card w/ IBM 75GXP & Seagate 40Gb drives
TI PCI/PCMCIA card reader w/ Orinoco Silver card (My Internet
Connection).
Linksys 100mbit NIC
SB Live!
Zip 100 via ppa.o
Mandrake by default does not recognize the SIIG IDE controller (SIIG,
Acard do support Linux w/ a Kernel Patch). I pass ide2=0x####,0x####
ide3=0x####,0x#### to the kernel and it finds the drives fine.
I have drives setup in a goofy fashion (Suggest something different if
I'm doing something wrong or asinine).
hda: hda1=FAT32, hda5=swap, hda6=/boot(ext2), hda7=md0, hda8=md1,
hda9=md2
hde: hde1=FAT32, hde5=swap, hde6=/tmp(ext2), hde7=md0, hde8=md1,
hde9=md2
hdg: hdg1=swap, hdg5=md0, hdg6=md1, hdg7=md2, hdg8=FAT32
md0: / (ext3)
md1: /usr (ext3)
md2: /home (ext3)
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Again, I was able get the entire
mess running under MDK8.2 w/o too much trouble.
TIA.
ryan
