bryanlee1981

It doesn't make it that far into the boot process. After I restart the Mandriva splash screen starts up and immediately freezes. It doesn't even begin to boot. There is a progress bar on the bottom left hand side of the screen but it does nothing.

Hey everyone, I am attempting to install Mandriva 2008 onto my western digital 250g external hard drive. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9300. Here is what i have done so far and the results. First thing i did was change the boot precedence to put usb as primary and the HDD as secondary. I would like for everything to be on the external so that it does not effect the MBR on my internal HDD. I tried to take the internal HDD out of the equation by removing it, but found i was unable to even boot from a disk without it. Not a big deal so i moved on. Now to the actual install. I inserted my Mandriva 2008 Live CD. Everything loads fine and the install wizard finds both my HDD and my external drive. I select the external HDD and format it as follows: / /swap /home The install process continues on and seems to be going fine. At the end of the process i get an option of where to install GRUB. The options are: /dev/sda (internal) /dev/sdb (lots of numbers here) /dev/sdb1 (root) /dev/sdb5 (swap) /dev/sdb6 (home) I tried installing GRUB to both /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 I dont want the grub installed on my internal HDD although i have a hunch that it would work if i put it here. Shouldn't i be able to install GRUB onto the external and boot from there without altering the MBR on my internal HDD? After installing to either /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 it tells me to remove the media and restart. Everything still looks good up to this point. During the restart it tries to boot from the external(which is good), but it hangs at the Mandriva splash screen. There is a progress bar at the bottom left of the screen but it never moves. In addition to that my Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights begin to blink. Not sure if that means anything. In order to restart from here I have to kill power to my laptop. I'm lost after this and hoping someone can tell me where i went wrong. Thanks in advance for any help. Bryan

Thanks for the reply. I had previously created a directory called "external" and attempted to mount the hard drive using "mount -t ntfs -o umask=0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/external", but i was unable to access the hard drive. If i go into the /mnt folder i can see the /mnt/usbdrive folder is there, but i am unable to access it. The folder icon itself is a folder with a lock on it. I thought i might be able to change the permissions for the folder, but even after i did that i still could not access it. When i try to open it i get "Unable to enter file:///mnt/usbdrive. You do not have access rights to this location." When i initially plug in the hard drive i get the same error as before: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

I have a 250g Western Digital hard drive. When i plug in the hd it auto mounts as usual and then i get the following error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so I have searched quite a few posts and none of the suggestions i found seemed to work for me. I am sure it is something simple, but it is beyond me. I know that NTFS support is still sketchy, but i should be able to at least read my hard drive...right? The last thing i tried was: mount -t ntfs -o ro,umask=022,users /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrive The output was this: mount: mount point /mnt/usbdrive does not exist Thanks in advance for any info /bryan

I am attempting to configure Kismet. I have found quite a few other posts regarding Kismet, but i was unable to get anything useful from them. I'm using Mandriva 2008 Live(2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv) I downloaded Kismet using urpmi kismet I have configured kismet.conf as well as kismet_ui.conf When i attempt to start the server using the command kismet_server (as root) i get the following. [root@localhost user]# kismet_server Will drop privs to user (500) gid 500 No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled. Enabling channel hopping. Enabling channel splitting. Source 0 (addme): Enabling monitor mode for ipw2200 source interface none channel 6... FATAL: GetIFFlags: interface none: No such device [root@localhost user]# Beyond this i am pretty much lost. I know that my wireless card works as i can connect to wireless network. I don't know if that is relevant however. I hope i have included enough info to be helpful. Thanks in advance.