On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 05:35, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Ryan S Oltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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: > > Please boot with the cd #2. It should workaround your problem. > I'll try to boot off CD#2 tonight. > > > Texas Instruments PCI1225, 2 sockets (driver yenta_socket). > > [...] > > > 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. > > Hum, I've updated the code to latest pcmcia-cs, it should be ok > but there may be a bug. Please, once you're up in the graphical > install from the CD #2 (you'll be asked to change to CD #1 to > launch graphical install), can you go to console #2 (Ctrl Alt > F2), type in "lspci" and copy the line about your Lucent pcmcia > controller? Will do. > > > 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. > > Hum this is not enough for us to debug... can you get the file > /root/drakx/report.bug.gz (with the rescue for example) and send > it to us? >
I think(?) I found the solution in the errata section on the MDK website last night. Apparently there is an issue with mounting a raid partition as /. I believe this may be the reason the rescue CD can't mount the partitions after I've done an install. Now I just need to find a floppy drive to install the patch with. I didn't have any space for one the case so I went w/o it when I built the system. (Any Chance I could install the patch from the CD drive or Parallel port zip drive??) > > ================== > > > > 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). > > Did you pass these flags when booting, as well? If not, that will > explain. > Yeah, I was passing the flags to the kernel at boot up. > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
