Hi Wayne,
I'm running a dual boot too. Happily I can say that my worst day with
Linux is a 100x better than my best day with Windoze. :-)
Pj
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Stout, Wayne wrote:
>
> Greetings, all.
>
> I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few
> snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto.
>
> Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig
> drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS
> SOLO-1 sound integrated.
>
> The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only
> work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it
> tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and
> created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and
> booted from it.
>
> When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this:
>
> 03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0
> dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1
> attempt to access beyond end of device
>
> Then I get a Reading super block failed
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera 2.3
> and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved and
> installed over them)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
