Hi!
I have managed to install it with alternative 2.2.14 cdrom image! It has
worked with 2.2.19 either!
I would be very happy if I would know where the problem was with 2.4
kernel...
Bye, Alen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bornath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Can't install Mandrake 8.0?? (Uable to mount root
fs...)
> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:36 +0200, Alen Salamun wrote:
>
> > Cannot open root device "" 08:05
> > kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs
> >
> > I have installed Mandrake 8.0 from the same CD many times, so it can't
be
> > some damaged iso or whatever...
> >
> > I have tried to boot RedHat 6.1 installation and it worked right away!
So
> > it
> > must be something with mandrake 8.0! I have noticed on newsgroups, that
> > some
> > ppl have same problem with Mandrake 8.0!
>
> Well, it might be the same principle which was a minor caveat during my
> installation of 8.0. The CD booted and everything worked right until I
> came to the package selection. There it crashed due to the slow spin-up
> time of my Plextor SCSI 40x CDROM. I tried installation from my cd-writer
> which is also Plextor SCSI on the same host-adaptor as the CDROM. There
> everything worked w/o probs.
> That shows that there are parameters in the installation scripts which
> don't conform to *all* the hardware in the world. Maybe in my case it's
> the timeout-value which is too short. One cannot declare a 40x SCSI
> Plextor CDROM as "out-of-date" hardware which doesn't meet modern Linux
> standards, or can you?
>
> Maybe there's something similar in your case. Try - if possible - to
> change the harddisk just for a test. Or the data cable or whatever is
> involved (No, I don't did *not* say you should substitute the user as
> well!).
>
> wobo
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