Lloyd wrote: > > Ok, last night I did a fresh workstation install of Venus on > a clean hard disk. I started with an updated boot.img > install floppy which I got from the "updates"directory from > a Mandrake mirror. The I started my my CD-ROM install. Ok, > so far, so good. Near the end of the install, it asks to > configure X. I set it up exactly the same way I set it up > under Festen (where it worked perfectly) It says it doesn't > like my X configuration and will use a default configuration > instead. OK, I figure I'll just re-run Xconfigurator later. > It then asks to make a custom bootdisk. Did that. It then > says to remove the diskette and press return. OK, I do that. > It starts rebooting. It goes along fine and then the > weirdness begins. A message comes up saying something like > (I don't remember it 100% precisely) "cannot execute > /sbin/mgetty-respawning too fast" (could possibly be > mingetty). Then it dies. It says "INIT-no more processes > left." I turned it off and on. When it reboots, the getty > messages don't appear. Instead I get a new one. It gets to > "creating /mnt/disk-OK", then it says > "/bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary file-FAILED". > And that's where it dies every time. > > I actually did get it to boot from the boot floppy I made, > but it only worked ONCE. > > Does anybody have ANY ideas? Under Festen this all worked > just fine. > I realize it's pretty long, but details are sometimes > necessary...:-) > -- > Lloyd Osten > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
