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
