On Tuesday 21 November 2000 16:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > where on your disk does this installation of Mandrake happen to be? Is it > the only one on the drive, or are there "others"? What are you using for > the bootloader -- grub or Lilo? One harddisk: IDE 13GB; 1) /hda1 Win98 on 2,7GB, 2) /boot 38MB (Mandrake) 3) /boot 46MB (SuSE) 4) /hda5 SuSE 7.0 on 5,4GB 5) /hda6 swap 133MB 6) /hda7 swap 133MB 7) /hda8 Mandrake 4,4GB > I know....questions...questions...questions. But I jest gotta know! OK, OK, OK.......:-) ei > Mark > > >From: EagleIce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:27:50 +0100 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [expert] serious boot problem with 7.2 > > > >Hello all Mandrake users! > > > >I did send this mail some days ago to the 'newbie' list but didn't get a > >single reply so I try it here. At the time beeing I am unable to use > > Mandrake which I consider very sad because I like LM 7.2. > > > >I am new to the Mandrake system but an experienced Linux user (SuSE, > >Caldera), I made two successful installations of Mandrake 7.2 and it > > worked perfectly. But now when I try to make a new installation the > > installation itself seems to work perfectly but on reboot everything just > > stops and the system hangs when trying to initiate with the > > /etc/re.sysinit file, all it's calls get the reply 'Permission Denied' > > and then everything stops. > > > >I have tryed 5-6 different installations with the same results, a friend > > of mine has had the same problem on different hardware and with different > > cd-rom's (he gave up Mandrake). I really liked the 7.2 Mandrake and would > > love to have it back as I had thought of using it on a course in Linux > > for new users (sic) > >.. > >Can someone please help me with this? > > > >Cheer's, > >ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
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