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An example,have you installed grub in a machine with 2 Hdds on a Highpoint 378 on board raid controller and with a SCSI HDD over an adaptec 19160 controller? If you didnt then you should and you will get an idea of what kind of trouble we are talking about.... For the record,i have been able to install pclinuxOS 2007 in a usb HDD with grub and it boots fine...the aside is that it wasnt installed on this computer,it doesnt even boot in here but boots fine im my lappy. I am not saying that grub sucks....just it has a few glitches that need to be solved on some not very usual hardware configs....For most standard configs i dont doubt it works fine. Cheers....

Well...i could give you a free advise.....Install 2007 Spring if possible. Clean install is prefereble but u can try an upgrade and see how it goes.... Hardware suport should be a bit better although Mandriva 2007 Spring should have been shipped with a newer kernel... Cheers....

Yep,same pain tho. I guess we must "ditch" grub for now. I feel more confortable with lilo cause i have been using it since i start messing around with linux,Mandrake 8.0 was my first sucessfull linux install. Not so familiar with grub but what i understand from what i have been reading about,is that grub is more flexible in some things than lilo....but hey....one thing i have learned using micro$hit products....if it works dont change it!!!! Grub is still young and almost every distro is using it so,in a near future it could become much better and bug free(if such thing is possible). :D Cheers....

I have exacly the same problem with grub...never could get it to work. Since Mandriva 2007 spring change the bootloader to grub it just stop booting in this strange hardware configuration....urpmi lilo and puffff....work like a charm. Mandriva was the only OS linux based that i experiment that booting was no problem until they replaced lilo by grub and i tried,Fedora which none of the versions from 3 to 6 was able to boot properly,suse from 10 it doesnt even could get it installed it hangs while loading installer,Debian based,well forget it i even tried Slackware which it installs but hangs at boot....so Mandriva was the only distro that worked just right out of the box with lilo.... This is a not so new AD77 Infinity board from DFI based on VIA KT400 with a scsi adaptec 19160 controler with a 18 GB SCSI HDD and 2 HDDs 120GB ATA on the raid controler plus a 120 GB ATA HDD as a primary master.Not very pretty this config but Mandriva really works fine in here. Cheers.

Glad to hear that!!! Welcome to the Linux world. Cheers.....

You may need to make a new initrd image. Dont forget to chroot to the usb hard drive first. /sbin/mkinitrd --preload usbcore /boot/initrd-2.6.17-13mdv_custom_1.img 2.6.17-13mdv just change the kernel version to your own since this is the default and i know there is a new version. mkrescue --iso --size HD --install menu --initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-13mdv_custom_1.img --kernel /boot/vmlinuz --root /dev/sda1 burn it and try again.... I know you must try a few times but systems tend to vary a lot it may work for some and for some it dont work. :D Cheers....

Perhaps i missed something,you could try to append the root switch it would be something like this: mkrescue --iso --size HD --install menu --kernel /boot/vmlinuz --root /dev/sda1 Then again,you should check what the root device is in the fstab file... Mine is something like this: /dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 so insteed of sda1 my root device is sda6 so it would something like this for my system: mkrescue --iso --size HD --install menu --kernel /boot/vmlinuz --root /dev/sda6 Of course until you get it right you should burn those iso images in a cdrw or a dvdrw. Dont forget that you must be chrooted to the usb drive system in order to issue such commands. Cheers....

If it doesnt boot you need to: a) have a linux system installed and running b ) plug the usb drive where you installed the unbootable system c) mount the drive say in /mnt/test --> mkdir /mnt/test --> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test -o rw assuming you usb drive is sda d) chroot /mnt/test e) mkrescue --iso --size HD --install menu --kernel /boot/vmlinuz this last command will create a iso file wich must be burned in to a cd. All this must be done as root in a konsole. For booting the usb drive you must have to boot from the cd first,for loading the kernel,then it automaticaly loads the usb modules for the usb drive and then mount it as a normal internal hd. I always make a boot cd to this since not all computers boot directly from usb....very handy this cd Hope it helps.... Cheers...

Perhaps a reboot would help? and check dmesg for some module loading error. In my system: eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e400, 00:01:29:4e:05:35, IRQ 10. eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 45e1. eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 the dmes line for my ethernet card,its a via rhine II onboard network card. Check for something like that in dmesg. Also if you configure the network card from mcc,if module loading or another error when configuring network card,you should try running mcc from a konsole as root....drakconnect tend to be a bit verbose,you might have a chance to see why the card doesnt work in the konsole if not in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog. Cheers....

Does the hardware present in lspci? Whats the ouput of lspci? I am just asking this cause it happened to me ....some strange hardware conflit which my ethernet card was not listed in lspci....I had to change some pci card to another slot...and back again...weird!! Cheers....

While clamav is nice and its free....f-prot is also excellent and also free for home users. Comparing both my personal choice goes to f-prot since its virus database is more wide than clamav...but since i use clamav in my mail server and works very good...take a look at both and chose one. Clamav is in the rpms tree of Mandriva and can be very easy to install as: urpmi clamav Cheers.....

I will try it as soon as i have some time...i will let you know how it went....old hardware is not the issue around these parts :D Cheers.....

I think kernel upgrades are a bit messy. What u can do is install 2.6.17-13mdv kernel again not with the drakrpm thing....in console. Perhaps the more easy way is to open a console as root and type: urpmi --no-install kernel-2.6.17.13mdv and wait for the kernel to be downloaded to /var/cache/urpmi/rpms if the above fails you need to download the kernel manually from a mirror ftp like: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions...2007.1.i586.rpm Then u can install(not upgrade) the old kernel with: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.17.13mdv-1-1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm you now can reboot and boot from the old kernel a.k.a 2.6.17.13mdv If u can boot the old kernel u should check if you can have X working then uninstall the new a.k.a 2.6.17.14mdv rpm -e kernel-2.6.17.14mdv Now u are going to install again the 2.6.17.14mdv but with this command: Manually download the kernel from: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions...2007.1.i586.rpm and install it with the following command: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.17.14mdv-1-1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm then reboot and check if u can boot from the newlly installed kernel and check if you have Xserver working,if so u can then remove the old one. Good luck.

Why not give it a try with linux-live scripts....very fast and with lots of features. Against linux-live scripts in the fact that needs a kernel patch... Too bad mklivecd as stopped development... Cheers...

Yes...i have been trouble with burning speeds,if too high the data written could not be perceptible to old dvd readers....happened to me...in fact most modern media(dvds) could not be read at all in some dvd readers.... It worth give it a try burning at lower speeds. Cheers.....

Does it have a dvd reader or only a cd reader?

I have the same problem running proftp in standalone mode,but running as a xinetd service works fine....go figure Cheers

Yep...replacing /etc/pam.d/su by /etc/pam.d/su.rpmnew did the trick....i must remember myself to carefully read the errata.... Thanks mystified Cheers....

I have the same problem when i upgraded from 2007.0 ... In all my systems upgrade seems to messed up and become unusable distro. To bad since i am almost ditching Mandriva bacause in all upgrades i have ever done none of them worked so bad... Upgrades are not the problem itself...clean installs have a few drawbacks by its own....as an example lilo was replaced by grub...I dont know about other users but i have a very ugly menu in the boot screen to chose the kernel to boot...i thought,well as long it works i could keep it,but then a very strange thing happened...i have a dual boot with win$hit XP? and once i booted in to that no problem...but when i rebooted i could not ever again boot into any other OS and the only thing it shows before the grub boot menu is a error 23(not really sure what that means) so my pc has become unusable for the first time in years after installing Mandriva... If release period is about 6 months between them and has this kind of problems(bugs mostly) if there was a voting for change release period i vote for a yearly release...at least there was enough time(i think) to squash the most terrible bugs out there.... Well thats just my opinion.... Cheers....

Nice drive!!! Cheers.

I have metisse is a usb pen disk installed with the builtin draklive-install script. Just boot from cd>open console>su(to become root)>run draklive-install and install in a hard drive or usb pen disk.....works very nice with default kernel.... P.S:If the computer does not boot from the pen disk,just run mkrescue to generate a boot.iso then burn the .iso to a cd and you will have a boot cd to start your Mandriva Metisse from the pen drive... Cheers....

I think all is running fine. Thx much :D Cool!!! :P

You could compile wxGTK and aMule yourself... Take a look here or i have a few rpms of wxGTK-2.8 and a snapshot of a aMule as of today that seems to me stable enough... You can grab it in http://www.savefile.com/projects/1075902 NOTE:You must uninstall the wxGTK-2.6.3 provided by Mandriva and install the 2 wx-base and wx-gtk2 version 2.8 for that rpm of aMule to work(They are in the above link)....besides you must run it in a console like this: amule --even-if-lfroen-complains-this-will-stay or create a desktop entry with that flag....About the flag....long story and its only needed in CVS versions. Cheers....

It is a wxGTK problem....No window manager bug...just wx bug...with wxGTK-2.8 that doesnt happen....I know cause i have tested it....

I have a HP dv5125eu laptop with a turion 64 and also have a broadcom 4318 wifi card.... Never could made it work in Control center even with ndiswrapper,instead i searched for 64 bit drivers for windows and found this: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/...4bit/80211g.zip What i did was unzip(for example to your home dir) and then as root in a console: ndiswrapper -i BCM4318.INF <----dont know now the right filename of the .Inf file...just guessing since i am not in my laptop now, i will post the right command later. That should do the trick and wireless light should lite up...if does not work ....reboot and try again. you can also use ndiswrapper -l to see what drivers ndiswrapper is loaded....if There is more then one u must clean all of them with: ndiswrapper -r <name of the driver> Hope it helps somehow.... B) Cheers....