Hello there, I have a mitac 5033 laptop and i fancied my chances of installing mandrake 8.1 on it (i should point out that im a newbie and relative virgin with linux)as i didnt want to disturb my main machine until i knew what i was doing. Anyway the install went great with no problems (despite having been given only 2 out of the 3 internet disks) however it hung on reboot after install, aparently this is usual for this POS machine so i had a look around the laptop sites and found this article http://www.spanbroek.net/mark/laptop which desribed how to fix it by removing the option 'make cpu idle calls when idle' from the Kernel so i followed the intructions and then started to recompile the Kernel and it went fine for about 20 mins and then stopped here:
gcc -D_KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wn o- trigraphs -02 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred -stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 fno-merge-constants -c -o font_8x8.o font_8x8.c gcc -D_KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wn o- trigraphs -02 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred -stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 fno-merge-constants -c -o font_8x16.o font_8x16.c gcc -D_KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wn o- trigraphs -02 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred -stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 fno-merge-constants -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c fbmem.c gcc -D_KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wn o- trigraphs -02 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred -stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 fno-merge-constants -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c fbcmap.c gcc -D_KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wn o- trigraphs -02 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred -stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 fno-merge-constants -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c modedb.c gcc -D_KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wn o- trigraphs -02 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred -stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 fno-merge-constants -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c fbcon.c this has been sittinng on my laptop screen since 9 o'clock last night (14/01/02) the drive light is going crazy as if it writing to the hdd, but its only a 4gig drive so i doubt that,, (i have tried to keep the formatting as much as it is on my screen) can anyone help /advise me what to do I dont want to give in and go back to win me (I have since installed it as a dual boot on my main machine in frustration) (laptop spec) AMD K6-2 380Mhz, 96mb ram, 4gb Hdd, 800x600 dstn screen (in other words crap) Thanks in advance Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
