My Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14-15mdk) would not boot this morning, and neither
would my boot/rescue disk work!
I've had Mandrake for about 6 months, and have been running Slackware
for over five years, so, i'm not a newbie, although, I may not exactly
be an expert either.
Hard drive boot symptoms: Every thing goes normally untill just afer
the block penguin comes up and dissapears. Normally, after the penguin
dissapears, a few seconds later, the gray X windoes screen apears for a
few seconds, then the blue mandrake login screen appears. What I get,
after teh penguin dissapears is nothing, just a blank screen. The hard
drive does several seeks every 4-5 seconds, but that is all I get.
After a minute or so of this, I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, which began the
shutdown process. The (near) normal shutdown sequence appeared, with
all of the green [ OK ] messages, but there was one red [ FAILED ] This
was the very first message and it was attempting to shut down X windows.
Rescue disk boot symptoms: I first used the boot disk I created during
the installation of Mandrake. If I select Linux at the LILO prompt, it
attempts to boot from the hard drive, and I get the same symptomes as
above. If I select Rescue, it loads the kernel and then asks for a
"root floppy disk". I just hit return to use the same floppy disk I
just loaded the kernel from. This did not work, I got an error about
not finding init.
I still have my old system, with Slackware 3.? and a 2.0.0 kernel. I
also have the same version of Mandrake loaded on this system, no X
windows though, as my partition was only 120 MB or so. I booted to
Mandrake and did a mkbootdisk. The man page claims this can be used as
a rescue disk, too. Booting to Rescue in LILO, with this new disk,
fails as the previous boot disk did. Booting to Linux in LILO also
fails, as the hard drive is partiitioned differently on my two machines.
I read the Bootdisk-HOWTO. That was extreemly complicated. I'm sure it
would take me a few days to get through that, with a working system!
There were several links to prebuilt boot disks, but none for Mandrake.
Questions:
1. Does the boot/rescue disk I made with during installation od
Mandrake actually work in the rescue mode? How?
2. Does the mkbootdisk command make a rescue disk that works in the
rescue mode? How?
3. Does Mandrake have boot/rescue disk images available? I searched
the web page, and didn't find anything.
4. Would any or some particular non-Mandrake rescue disks work OK with
my Mandrake system?
Thanks
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