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I had this happen on my tp600's too. I'm not exactly sure what the issue is, but it most likely lies in the acpi. Are you enabling it on start up? What I would suggest is either going into MCC and disabling acpi from the boot menu and trying again, or adding "acpi=force pci=noacpi" or "acpi=off pci=noacpi nolapic"(without quotes) to the boot kernel at the grub to test it out. Good luck. Are you running Mandriva One with Gnome or KDE? I just installed Mandriva One Xfce on an upgraded 600E (500Mhz) and its running pretty good. I highly recommend it. They did a nice job. Add Opera for quickness and its a nice lower resource OS.

A bit of an update. I tried Super Grub Disc again, and no luck there. I tried uninstalling Grub and then reinstalling it (through SGD), but that didn't work. It just boots to a flashing cursor and nothing else. I also tried to reinstall the bootloader/grub through the liveCD and that doesn't work either, it still brings me to the blinking cursor. . It apparently does absolutely nothing on this machine. I went to Control Center/Boot and reinstalled it. But after reboot, theres nothing there. I tried to reinstall the bootloader before and after I uninstalled grub, and it didn't work in either case. I read about a rescue function on the livecd, and tried accessing the that, but I can't seem to find it. Any help would be great. Thanks. I really like the distro and would love to stick with it, but I can't live with only 32kb of cache. Is there anyway I can install the system but not the bootloader and then use a livecd from Ubuntu or PCLOS and (try to) install that one. Do you think this would work... or have a chance to work? I don't know why the bootloader or grub isn't being reinstalled through the livecd. Thanks

Hey everyone. I'm trying to install Mandriva One XFCE onto my TP600E that I've upgraded the CPU -> PIII on. It installs just fine and all goes well, but because of the mods done to the hardware, the L2 cache has to be disabled to get by the BIOS. In Ubuntu and in PCLinuxOS I've been able to use a grub hack that activates the L2 cache in Grub, but when I perform the hack in Mandriva, I get dumped to a grub> prompt and left utterly confused. I've tried several times, and to no avail. I just got done transferring each modified file one by one into the /boot/grub folder and they all work fine except when I swap the "Stage2" file. This is the one that causes my problem. But unfortunately none of the others seem to activate the L2 cache. Here is a rundown of what is involved to enable the cache. Has anyone any thoughts on fixing this? Reinstalling the bootloader from the CD doesn't work. Is there another way to do it that I'm missing? Thanks a lot. I really like the OS and would love to use it...

I only have the 2 options. /dev/hda (...) /dev/hda5 And no nothing else is attached.

Ok, Here is the output of mount -l: none on / type unionfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) /dev/hda1 on /media/hd type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) /dev/hda5 on /media/hd2 type ext3 (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) And the options given in the bootloader set up (don't know how to do a screenshot in Mandriva...) /dev/hda (1C25N020ATMR04-0) - default - the one I've been choosing. /dev/hda5

yep. After seeing the No Bootloader found... message and hitting OK.

Going into Boot under MCC, the first message I'm met with is "No Bootloader found, creating new configuration." Despite me installing the bootloader 3 times now. Doing a package search shows that GRUB is installed on the CD. grub-install /dev/hda does nothing so does grub-install --root-directory /dev/hda Anything else I should try?

I don't know whats going on. After finally getting the /dev/hda to mount in the Live CD I can go to the root folder and see both partitions (hd, hd2). In hd is my Windows XP stuff, and in hd2 is the Mandriva. There is a /boot/grub folder in there. But obviously not where it should be. Despite my efforts to write it to the MBR. Should I try to write it to the hd? fdisk spits this out: Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2584 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000633ce Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11030008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1460 2584 8505000 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1460 2584 8504968+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA) So should I try writing the grub to hda1? Thanks. Sorry, this is a new problem for me (only been using Linux for about a year) and I'm getting a bit frustrated... I used the default settings for the bootloader. Which was hda (I believe)... So I don't know what else to do. I'm currently in the Live CD so I guess I can run through it again...

Well the poor mans fix accomplished nothing. It is behaving the same. I tried SuperGrub, to no avail and walked through installing grub this way: grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hdb update-grub But the grub-install still said I did create a root directory. So I am lost. I'm going to try the directions here: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ht...B-natively.html, but without having a GRUB to start with, I'm thinking I'm screwed.

At boot I ESC out to a boot: and type grub-install /dev/hda but it says it can't find grub-install. I tried this with a Linux-Mint CD I have here too and both come up no-goes. Am I missing an option here? Should I be booted in first? As far as the install options are concerned, I just used the default options (except for adding Windows to the bootloader, which wasn't found). So I have no idea where the problem is. But after clicking Finish a small window pops up and goes away quickly and thats it. In PCLOS it would say your machine now needs to be rebooted. So I think something is definitely amiss. EDIT: I'm currently reinstalling. (poor mans fix) Hopefully it'll work but my hopes are low. I tried a grub-install /dev/hda from konsole and it came back with an error about not having grub or a /boot device.

I started running this but after typing the find command it came back with 'Error 15 file not found.' So I got stuck again. What now?

Hey everyone. This is my first official use of Mandriva. I've used PCLOS, and liked it so now I've tried Mandriva and really like it. I installed it on a partition on my old 600X Thinkpad that I play with Linux distros. But after the reboot, my machine booted directly into XP. GRUB never came up. So I went back into the Mandriva One LiveCD and went to the MCC and into Boot. It told me it couldn't find a bootloader on the drive and so I reinstalled. Both times I had to manually add Windows to the menu... which has never happened before. Again, after reboot, straight into XP. Is there something I'm missing here? I used the default options, and I've never had a problem yet and have installed several OSes on this machine and others that I dual boot. Any help would be great. I'd love to give the OS a real test drive from the HDD. Thanks.