On Wednesday 22 November 2000 14:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:49:43PM +0100, EagleIce wrote: > > thank's all for your concern: chris spencer, civileme, rune kallhovd and > > others which names i've lost. this seems to have been the problem: > > > > I noticed one thing different in the Mandrake fstab file (I can access > > the LM files from SuSE) compared to the SuSE fstab, in Drake I read: > > /dev/hda8 / ext2 noauto,user,rw 1 1 > > which looked a bit weird to me, in SuSE it's: > > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > > > > I changed the file in LM and tryed to boot; VOILA! all of a sudden it > > worked! > > > > Now the question is: if this was the entire problem, how come a fresh > > Mandrake 7.2 install is configures itself in that way? 'noauto,user,rw' > > for the root partition in fsab is totally illogical, no wonder the whole > > system flips out on people when this happens. > > Tell me about it! > A / partition configured as 'noauto', now, THAT is completely senseless! > Are you sure this is the work of the install program? Totally, absolutely, no way! I had never been into the system after those installations. Now I'm gonna make a friend of mine see if he got this same spooky thing on his box, he can't come any further than to the rc.sysinit start. The weirdest thing is that I had made two perfect installations on this very same box earlyer on (from the same cd's) > If so, could it be > possible to have some feedback from the mandrake crew, to give some > explainations, patch or other nasty things to check after install? That would be interesting. > > > I am evaluating the Mandrake 7.2 dist to eventually use it as education > > material in a course for Linux newbies, where I will teach them to > > install and configure a Linux OS. So, if this is an isolated problem only > > on 'some' of the CD's distributed and not all, I would like to know. > > > > Rune; if you haven't got another Linux installed then perhaps you should > > consider installing one to be able to access your Mandrake and check the > > fstab file. I always have one Linux in shape when testing another > > one..:-) > > I do that with a slack CD. No need to waste precious HD space... > > > Flupke -- @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
