Hi folks,
My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my
partition table.
Sample message:
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {}
unable to read partition table
hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt' keeps repeating and repeating until I have to
do a CNTRL+ALT+DELETE.
How do you get into graphical mode? I have the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
Roman
Registered User
Eduardo Arauz wrote:
> i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run :
> fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the
> problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems....
> finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work
> 100% i cant mount either a cd rom or a diskette )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: X Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
>
> I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
> is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
> Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
> browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
> I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
> icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
> normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
> to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
> and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
> rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
> every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
> boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
> "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
> inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
> "/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
> options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
> during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
> reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
> ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
> "BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
> 6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
> 1.14...".
>
> I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
> ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
> saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
> scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
>
> It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
> finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
> experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
> setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
> reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
> Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
> with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
> you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
> crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
> AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
> different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
> thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
> something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
> definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
> like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
> Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
> still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
> worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
> in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do
> what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded
> VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full
> time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
>
