[SLUG] Sorry, need help...

[Henk Schuthof]

I'm mystified with the installation of Mandrake, and I hope there is a good heart in your group who can help me out. My problem is: I freed up a 12 gig HD for ML 8.1 ( it is the D:, on C: I have W2k), and the booting sequence is CDROM/A/C. After having received the usual congratulations when the install was completed the computer could not restart, showing an endless series of zeroes and ones.    The log says: Welcome to the Mandrake Linux install (mdk-stage1, version 8.10) Opening /proc/cmdline... ramdisk size =32000 initrd=cdrom.rdz automatic=method:cdrom root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 BOOT IMAGE vmlinuz auto AUTOMATIC MODE: got 1 params  got 7 args spawning a shell cannot open shell - /tmp/sh doesn't exist loading modules dependencies AUTOMATIC: parameter cdrom for method means returning CDROM drive have to insmod ide-cd needs cdrom needs ide-cd succeeded ide-cd have to insmod sr mod needs sr mod succeeded sr mod looking for ide media IDE/1 hda is a Quantum Fireball ST4.3A IDE/1 hdb is a Fujitsu MPE3136AT IDE/0 hdc is a 36X CD-ROM looking for scsi media looking for Compaq Smart Array media mounting /dev/hdc on /tmp/image as type iso9660 have to insmod isofs needs isofs succeeded isofs mount failed:no medium found.   Most of it is abracadabra for me, but I understand the system is asking for the install CD. However, I just installed it successfully. So could it be that something in the Bios went wrong? Is an advice possible from a distance?   Thank you now already for your reply, for I'm really stuck now. Henk Schuthof, Bayview.