To whom it may concern,
I tried posting the following message on the newbie list about a week ago
and it looks like no one knows of a possible solution so i though i'd try
posting to the expert list.
I have been trying to install mandrake 6.1. I used fips to repartition my
8 gb hard disk into a 6gb partition and a 2gb partition. I then used disk
druid in the install to delete the 2gb partition and create two more
partitions (1872 mb partition of type linux native and a 128 mb partition
of type swap).
During the installation process it asks "would you like to create a boot
disk for your system?" I answer yes and it says "an error occurred during
the step "create bootdisk of the install." It asks me if i want to go to
the previous step, retry , or go to the install menu. When i hit alt-f3 it
says
running:/bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/loop.o
insmod failed
When i skip this step (due to frustration) i go on to the lilo
installation step. The above occurs again. I choose Master boot record as
the place to install lilo, i choose windows as the default and i hit ok. I
get the same error message as above "an error has occured during the step
"install lilo."" I hit alt-f3 and again it says,
running:/bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/loop.o
insmod failed
any suggestions?
Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jas
