ibi wrote:
> 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
> **
> 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
Wayne, was the extended partition created by a win98 fdisk? OR by PartitionMagic?
I see something here that would match behavior induced by the new extended
partition Microsoft invented, even though win98 is compatible with the one
everyone has been using for years.
Try a reinstall using linux fdisk to delete all but your windows partition, and
then create the extended partition where you will put your linux partitions and
create them as well with old, reliable fdisk. Name them with disk druid. If you
still have the error, I will be very interested in trying to duplicate it.
Civileme
