hello ppl !
i recently decided to upgrade to mandrake 7.1 air, from ver 6.1.
i got the gpl-version, 2 cd�s, booted from cdrom and everything went fine.
chose "upgrade" and then installation process told me that it was searching
for
packets which need to be upgraded and that i was later able to chose which
of them i would like to upgrade.
after a while setup finished searching and simply started installing
packages - without prompting me to choose !
i didnt want to interrupt the installation process because a feared linux
wouldnt work at all if i did, so i left it installing.....mandrake air
intalled 2 hours (!!) packets....after that i thought i would get the
chance to do all the settings like user managment, printer, x, and the most
important one : creating a boot disk !!........but mandrake didnt do
anything of these things......i simply saw some dialog boxes rushing over
my screen, and finally a last dialog box told me that linux was now
completly installed and that i could now reboot my computer......
i was somehow amazed about this......but i restarted.......and guess :
after choosing "Linux" from my win nt bootmanager i only got 2 characters
to see from LILO.....: LI
nothing more......completly dead......i hoped to be able to start it from
my previous boot disk.....from version 6.1......i inserted ..linux began
booting from floppy and finally i got somrthing like : insert root floppy
and hit enter !
i didnt have some other boot floppy from linux........this was the only
disk i created during setup of ver. 6.1
so i hit enter and got after some seconds :
kernel panic : no init found.......
i really dont know what was going on......i had a full operating and
functionally linux 6.1....which took me 6 months to set up......and now
everything is gone......
i would really appreciate if someone could tell me what the hell mandrake
air did with my WORKING LINUX INSTALLATION........aaaaaargh.---
please anybody tell me whether it is completly fucked up or whether theres
a way to recover or to access 7.1.......
btw......it didnt fuck up my win98 installation......at least......some
good thing......
--quaylar ...a resignated linux newbie
