Re: [LIH] mandrake 7.2 doth not boot

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

At 04:43 PM 1/20/01 +0530, Diwakar - tamil.com wrote:

>my system hanged when installing mandrake 7.2. so i had to overwrite it 
>with lnx4win which was installed successfully. but that didnt load and 
>there was an error message which went something like "Cannot load kernel 
>pager", etc. may be i should have written it down.

maybe something like APMD isnt supported by your BIOS, leading to this error

>i use a zenith computer with samsung hard drive, i810, zenith monitor, 
>windows 98 as primary OS. it detected everything except the monitor. but 
>doesnt load. i dont want to install lnx4win. i want to use the original linux.

I have the same config (but I thought zenith uses SiS for about everything 
...)  Shouldnt be any problem at all.  I installed mandrake fairly 
successfully - then switched to slackware 7.1 on that box (getting rid of 
windows in the process - YAY!)

         --suresh

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  [ <> ]  mallet <@> efn.org
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