On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 13:30 +0200, Alen Salamun wrote:
> 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 Plextor CDROM as "out-of-date" hardware which doesn't meet modern Linux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
Well, that is the way described on MandrakeForum to solve most of the
hardware-related problems (especially for notebooks). What stays is the
question: WHY is there a problem at all?
wobo
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