Dan LaBine wrote:
Graham Watkins wrote:
Hi All,
Just spent a fruitless morning trying to install Mandriva One.
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Anyone else had similar experiences. I notice that not much has been
said by others about this new version - is it just a piece of crap
best ignored?
Cheers,
Graham,
First, I don't know if you knew this or not, but the version you have
is probably the Beta, since the full version was only released to Club
members about a week and a half ago, and the magazine would have ended
up with only a Beta available to put inside.
Second, that Beta had a bug that gives you a kernel panic if you have
2 optical drives in your machine - CD, CDRW, DVD, and/or DVDRW - take
your pick. I suspect that this is your problem.
This is it for sure, as googling confirmed. One might have thought that
the magazine might have tested it first - or at least made it clear that
it was a beta. If they had, I probably would have left it alone.
Third, when you first boot the system and you see the Lilo screen, you
can hit the ESC key to access the rescue options. I haven't had the
problem you're having, but theoretically, you should be able to type
the word 'rescue' and go from there.
My suggestion is that you disconnect one of your Optical drives, do
the install, then upgrade the kernel-source and main kernels, then
revise Lilo ("lilo -v" in a root console), reboot and remove the
default kernel, then shut the system down, re-attach your second
optical drive and restart. It's a bit of a pain, but that's faster
than re-installing 2006 from scratch.
Er, that looks a bit complicated. Upgrading kernels is something I've
never got into before. Is there an easy to understand guide available
anywhere? I've reinstalled 2006 for the time being. Doing that's bit of
a pain but at least I have a system that more or less functions again.
Thanks for the advice.
--
Graham Watkins
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. - H. L.
Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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