On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:10, Ambrose Kofi Laing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone successfully running Mandrake 8.0 on a Gateway Athlon
> Select (mine is a 900MHz Thunderbird with 256M ram)?
>
> I've tried and can't get it to run. None of the boot options work:
> linux-nonfb, linux, failsafe. All of them get to the point where they say
>
> Welcome to Linux Mandrake
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
>
> At that point it freezes and pressing 'I' does nothing. Some of the boot
> options which say more, say:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 696k freed
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
>
> Welcome to Linux Mandrake
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
> <freeze>
>
> My hardware is a 900 MHz Gateway Athlon Select (a Thunderbird), with 256M
> ram, a huge IBM hard drive (something like 20g), and the hardware works
> properly because it worked well under Mandrake 7.2, and then I installed
> 8.0 to run into this problem, reinstalled 7.2 and it worked again, and
> retried 8.0 and it failed again, exactly the same way.
>
> My partitions / and /usr are ext2, and /home and /usr/local are reiserfs.
> / is mounted successfully before it freezes, because the boot sequence
> indicates that modules /lib/sd_mod.o and /lib/3c58x.o are loaded (in
> addition to the message I quoted about mounting root readonly).
>
> BTW I've installed Mandrake 8.0 on a different box, a p200mmx, and that
> took a few tries but it eventually worked.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what I could do to get it to work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ambrose
Well, first try this
boot the install CD then hit F1 and type "rescue" (without the quotes)
next, the partition where your root fs is should be mounted--(here I assume
it is /dev/hda5)
# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
# chroot /mnt
# mount /usr
#
You now have access to your editors and can pull in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
Right after the "Press 'I' for interactive setup" message text you need to
add a line in betwen each line there--like this
echo "checkpoint 1"
sleep 1
fi
# This must be done before Aurora can be started (See
# /sbin/Monitor for explanational code :)
# Mount /proc (done here so volume labels can work with fsck)
action "Mounting proc filesystem" mount -n -t proc /proc /proc
echo "checkpoint 2"
and so on.
Then at least we can isolate the instruction where the freeze occurs....
I must also ask where you got the 8.0--the very first iso image posted may
have had a transmission error and you may have a copy of that... It was
strange enough that only a few systems failed with it.
Civileme
