Ross L.

Well I managed to get in somehow using the interactive setup. I think my NumLock process is corrupted. It hangs up there a lot. Any ideas what might be causing the error? I am pretty sure it is software at this point. I am hoping to have this solved by Sunday, as this is a present for my best friend, because his previous PC running XP crashed a lot. Thanks for your help! *EDIT* I don't have a LiveCD unfortunately. I have never rebooted in Linux. I will go try it and see what happens. The second question is definately one I would like to know the answer to, and as for the 3rd one, I don't have Windows on this pc for a reason. ;)

I always seem to have this issue when I install Linux. If it gets shutdown, it won't boot again. Currently Linux is hanging up during the load services segment, and this always seems to happen. I am almost ready to give up hope on Linux.... any help would be greatly appreciated. *EDIT* For the record I am using Mandriva LE 2005 on an AMD Duron 1200, which is in a VIA KT133A K7T Turbo-R motherboard, a 8GB Maxtor HD, 512MB RAM, and an S3 64V+ 4MB video card (getting a Xtasy Radeon 9550 AGP as a replacement for it later today).

Ahhh. I fixed it. The I/O Error was being caused by a bad CD-RW drive, and after that, it installed perfectly. In fact I could be posting from the Linux pc if I wasn't being lazy, and being sleep deprived from playing Battle for Wesnoth all night. >< Darn game! Why must it be so addicting?!!

Hey I fixed it! Here is what I did: I went back into the installer and reformatted the hard drive and right after formatting it went on to the Install Packages screen. I chose all the same things, and when I went to boot it up, it works! Takes about 2-3 minutes to boot but oh well. I am happy now.

Ahhhh. It's actually a physical thing wrong with the drive, like a drive won't spin or the tray moves in and out without being told to be the user. That is the only reason a drive usually get replaced at my house.

I am having this same problem too except it's with the non 64 bit version. My current system is kinda old: AMD Duron 1200 (unlocked but not overclocking), 512MB Ram, a VIA KT113A chipset K7T Turbo-R LE mainboard, an S3 Trio Video card (yes its old, getting an XTasy Radeon 9550 AGP for it soon), 12X DVD Rom drive, Maxtor 8GB HD (getting a Seagate 40GB soon too), and a Linksys Network Adapter. My PnP OS setting is set to off, if it makes a difference. I also MD5Summed the ISO's and they are all good.

Sorry about the double post but I figured what was wrong. Another bad drive.....

Ok finally fixed the I/O error I have earlier (bad CDRW drive. replaced with DVD drive) and now I have a new error. I formatted my hard drive and repartitioned it for Linux. And then the unthinkable happened. When it was searching for available packages, I got the following "blue screen": I have run MD5SUM on my ISO's and they all were ok. I scanned the surface of both hard drives I have tried installing on and no bad parts at all with ScanDisk and Drax. Any ideas?

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! :D Now I am having a different issue. Everytime I go to install Linux on this PC, it gives me an I/O error and I am quite unsure why. :S *EDIT* And I just checked and I am trying to install LE 2005, not 10.1. My mistake. ><

It's been a long time since I last touched Mandriva (9.0 to eb exact) and recently, I decided I would use it again. However, after downloading the ISO's and attempting to make some CD's that would be bootable, I only succeeded in wasting 2 CDs. If it helps I am trying to burn 10.1 onto 700MB CD-R's using Nero Express. Any tips? I tried looking through the FAQ section and all the links to other sites that might ahve been useful were dead. At any rate, I would appreciate it a lot if someone would get back to me soon, as this is a present for a friend. Thanks again!