Greetings, everyone.
I'm still unable to boot into Mandrake 6.1 on my laptop. I've tried some of
the suggestions that were given to me when I first asked about this a couple
of weeks ago.
To rehash:
Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg ram, 4.3 gig drive, dual boot
with Win98SE. I've tried deleting the extended partitions that were
initially created with FIPS, recreating them with Disk Druid.
The point I'm at now is as soon as the kernel tries to start apm, it gpf's.
Here's some of what I get:
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<802216c5>]
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 0000530e ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000102 edx: 00000000
esi: 80204220 edi: 0000530e ebp: 00000246 esp: 81febebc
ds: 0000 es: 0000 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=81feb000)
followed by a stack dump and a call trace which, if I tried to type in here
I'd get all messed up. :)
I've searched the archives for tips, but haven't been able to find anything
else.
I've booted with Tom's root boot disk, and tried to follow the tip that John
suggested, mounting hda2 to /mnt, chroot to the mount point and running
setup, but chroot gives me a usage error. (usage: chroot directory program
[arg ...]) I try to run /mnt/usr/sbin/setup, which I locate with the find
command, it tells me that the command wasn't found.
I've hit the proverbial brick wall here. Any additional suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. And thanks to everyone that has already tried to help.
And as a side note, I have managed to get other distributions installed on
this machine, and I can run RedHat if I must, but I really prefer Mandrake.
Thanks again,
Wayne
