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I tried the above suggestion. The verbose boot displayed a litany of errors and stopped after displaying "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" I also downloaded and installed the latest Fedora distro w/64bit support. It booted but then died during the update process. As I was checking my BIOS options, I noticed that booting from a USB disk was supported. I then installed PowerPack 2008 to a spare 40G USB drive. With this config the boot flew right past the previous problem area but died just after displaying "Enabling swap space... (OK)".

HP Pavilion dv9700 System board ID: 30D1 AMD Turion 64x2 TL-60 2.0Ghz 2048 Mb ram Two 120G SATA HDD RAID does not appear to be an option with this machine. The MOBO SETUP function allows only minimal changes: system time & date passwords allotted video memory boot order (CD/DVD, HDD, USB disk)

No joy. FDISKed the disk twice, then did install. Same result. Reinstalled putting GRUB on 1st partition rather than MBR. Same result. The disk is SATA - could that be a factor?

Thanks for your response. I tried all the suggestions in the link you provided with the same result as described above. By "clean disk" I meant that for each install I let the installer erase the disk and auto-allocate the file space. I'm still hung up on the fact that the "live" CD boot fails at the same spot - wouldn't that seem to rule out disk problems? Also is there a particular message on the verbose boot that I should look for?

I have tried to install both Mandriva 2008 PowerPack and 2008.1 from a DVD download. Both times on a clean disk. Both times the install was w/o problem until the initial boot from the HDD which stalled at "Setting up LVM" or "Checking Root Filesystem". Booting from a live CD (Mandriva One) dies at the same place. My question is: has anyone out there sucessfully installed Linux on this machine? If so, how? This one has me pulling my hair out and my frustration level is approaching max gross as I see myself forced back to VISTA. Come on, experts, I really need help.

Thanks for your suggestion and I'm sorry for the response delay; I was out of town for a few days. Getting into the interactive boot mode proved impossible as the system ignores keyboard input. I then went back to the single disk config where LVM shouldn't be an issue. As I mentioned earlier, the boot still dies. However, inspection of the boot messages and a comparison of the verbose boot with two other systems running the same distro indicates the stall occurs during "Checking Root Filesystem". Now I'm wondering if the fact that the HDDs are SATA is an issue here?

OK, I'm back with the same problem child - trying to install Power Pack 2008 on an HP Pavilion dv9723 laptop. This is the system config: 1. AMD Turion 64x2 mobile processor running @ 2.0 GHz 2. 2.00Gb RAM 3. Two (2) 120Gb SATA drives 4. NVIDIA 256Mb GeForce 7150M video 5. VISTA Home Premium 32. I replaced the VISTA drive with an eqivalent clean drive on which I installed XP Home. I installed Mandriva Power Pack 2008 on the second drive for a dual boot system. The Power Pack installed with no problem, but when I try to boot Linux from the hard drive the boot stalls on "setting up logical volume management". I also installed the Mandriva Linux to a clean single-disk config but got the same result. Any ideas out there?

Please ignore the reply about not being able to write to the "hosts" file as I now have the capability. I don't recall being asked to name my computer at install; would it be the username?

I can read the file but I can't write to it.

Thanks! Using Total Commander I found 5 files: /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost /etc/hosts.allow # # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # /etc/hosts.deny # # hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are # *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server. # # The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that # the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular # you should know that NFS uses portmap! /etc/hosts.mdkgiorig 127.0.0.1 localhost /etc/hosts.rpmnew 127.0.0.1 localhost As it now stands, I can access these files on a read only basis. I hope this helps!

Hi, I'm pretty much a newbie although I have had some success installing Mandriva 2008 in a single-disk dual-boot with WIN ME on an HP Omnibook6000 laptop. However, I recently purchased an HP Pavilion dv9723 laptop which came with: 1. AMD Turion 64x2 mobile processor running @ 2.0 GHz 2. 2.00Gb RAM 3. Two (2) 120Gb drives 4. NVIDIA 256Mb GeForce 7150M video 5. VISTA Home Premium 32. I replaced the VISTA drive with an eqivalent clean drive on which I installed XP Home. I installed Mandriva 2008 w/64 bit support on the second drive for a dual boot system. I encountered no issues with the Mandriva installation but when I try to boot Linux from the hard drive, the boot stalls on "setting hostname localhost: ". I also installed the Mandriva Linux to a clean single-disk config but got the same result. I can find no boot option or info that seems to apply to this problem and would greatly appreciate any help or new ideas.