On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:45:37 -0700 (PDT), Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia wrote:
> 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
I ran into a problem like this when I was trying to download RedHat 6.0 (now
running Mandrake 6.1) from an ftp site. Snurfing around, I finally found an
answer to my problem. The partitioning is OK, it is where those partitions
are located on the Hard Disk. As far as I know, there is no linux loader
that can load Linux from beyond the 1023 cyl on any given hard disk (goes by
raw harddisk data, not LBA).
To fix this problem (and it worked) I reparitioned my drive using Partition
Magic 3.04 - moving the unformatted partition to the front of my harddisk,
moving my Windows 98 to a spot farther back in my drive. Re-wrote the
partition table, (and since the Windows 98 was still the active and bootable
partition) rebooted into Windows98 and ran Windows for a day or so no
problems.
Then grabbed a copy of MaximumLinux mag from my local 7-11 /w a copy of
Mandrake 6.0. Booted directly from CDROM, used fdisk utility to set up my
partitions (same as you - aprox 1.8Gigs and swap of 120Megs). Set the Linux
partiton as active/bootable, installed properly and I was one happy man.
I've been switching from Win98 and Linux no prob.
I hope it helps!
Peter Verhagen
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