Just thought this may give you some info, you may know already, when LiLo
boots up all files are set to READ ONLY until boot is completed. This
may be what you are seeing flash on the screen. I have installed
Linux/ManDrake 7.0 Complete about 12 times, trying out different installs
to see which was good for me. Have not had any problems except where I
have made errors in my choices. I have a locally put together CPU AMD K6
II 350meg 32m RAM 3D Sound/w modem & video on the MOBO. My modem is a
Barfmodem, have not been on the NET with Linux yet. Have not given up.
You may have a problem with some part of your H/W check it out very
carefully then try it again. Just for your info I have been working on a
Packard 'Barf' Bell that has had a H/D problem, Conner CFA850A (850m)
H/D, died the other day and am attempting to recover the software if
possible. I have a friend that works on CPU's for living that has 13 1.2
gig Conner H/D's that have died on peoples CPU's he has repaired, I hope
your H/D is NOT a Conner.
My $3.01 worth,
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
On Sun, 14 May 2000 09:32:51 -0700 X Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of
> like a
> guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking
> through
> the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you
> said about
> not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I
> saw
> flash on the screen early in the boot process. I was paying extra
> close
> attention to everything at bootup after this happened, and so I'm
> not sure
> if it was new or not, but I saw something about read-only. It was
> only on
> the screen for like a split second. I'll try it again and see if I
> can
> catch anything more.
>
>
> At 03:25 PM 05/14/2000 +0000, you wrote:
> >i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my
> harddrive
> >wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a
> harddirive that
> >i could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things
> like
> >edit the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only
> >hd. finally after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave
> up and
> >reinstalled.
> >unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the
> first
> >chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide
> that
> >mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not,
> we're sorry
> >to lose ya.
> >good luck
> >jd
> >
> >
> >>From: X Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
> >>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700
> >>
> >>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 :-(
> >>
> >
>
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