Jas....I'm certainly not an expert on this, but if I ran into your
problem I'd delete the 1872 mb and the 128 mb partitions and then make a
10-24 meg linux native partition with a mount point of /boot and then
re-make those other two partitions you made previously. The mount point
of the 1800 mb one should be /
Alan
"Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia" wrote:
>
> 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
