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!

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Could you give some details?

If I understand correctly:

- If you're in Linux, and you reboot, then Linux works fine.

- If you're in Linux, and you halt, then Linux freezes on next boot somewhere after the "Entering runlevel 5" line. In that case, how do you go in Linux again? In this situation, how do you turn the PC off, and is the boot OK thereafter?

- What happens when you halt in Windows, and boot in Linux? Does it freeze the same as if you had halted in Linux?

 

Also, do you have the possibility of trying a live CD (Knoppix for example), and halting from there, and booting the live CD again?

 

Yves.

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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.

Hmmm, second bad drive in a row... bad luck...

If I were you I would try to change the drive's DMA status within the BIOS before swapping a third optical drive, and see if it made things better.

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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":

ERROR

 

An error occurred

INTERNAL ERROR: no kernel available

MDK::Common::Various::internal_error() called from

/usr/bin/perl-install/pkgs.pm:201

pkgs::BestKernelPackage() called from

/usr/bin/perl-install/install_any.pm:622

install_any::setPackages() called from

/usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_interactive.pm:395

install_steps_interactive::setPackages() called from

/usr/bin/perl-install/install2.pm:78

install2::installStepsCall() called from

/usr/bin/perl-install/install2.pm:227

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?

First thing: Mandriva 2005 LE is the latest download version of Mandrake/Mandriva - due to improvements especially (but not only) on the USB storage front, I'd really recommend to get that, instead of 10.1.

 

Second, to burn an iso image, you should use that option in your burning application; it may go by any name that hints at the same thing, such as:

burn image, burn cd iso, burn ...

Well, you get the idea...

If you managed to find this option and it didn't work, explain what you did more in detail.

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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!