IceStorm Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 (edited) I've never used Linux before, so bare with me please for my newness. I've got 10.0 CE, and am booting with the boot disk so the cdrom would be seen. This works fine. It see's the drive and loads up. Going into normal/expert/vgalo mode it will only boot up to a blue screen with a black X for a cursor and no further. If I try text mode, I can select the language. Then it gives an error code of "keymap ioctl failed (0 128 512): Invalid argument" I also see a message in the terminal, using graphical mode, as it scrolls about not being able to load RGB_DB" and gives the path/filename. Then goes to the blue screen with the black X cursor. Edited April 19, 2004 by IceStorm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFoss Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 Try booting from the second cd then switch back to the first one when prompted...Thats what I had to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 Yes, this is a known bug with the installer. Doing as suggested will render a complete install. The problem is fixed in the Official release. (Yay!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceStorm Posted April 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 Yes, this is a known bug with the installer. Doing as suggested will render a complete install. The problem is fixed in the Official release. (Yay!) Official release? I thought 10.0 was official? Sorry for the questions, I'm just new to Linux and the ever growing world of it. Thanks to all your input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 Mandrake has a new release convention. Cooker is all experimental, maybe works, maybe doesn't. Community Edition, CE, is a release that is ready to go, but needs to be ran by lots of people in order to verify any forgotten or unknown issues. That is why there were over 800MB of updates to CE. The Official Edition is the polished product resulting from all the CE issues. In this case, one of those issues was the rather bizzar installer thing! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceStorm Posted April 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 OK, I put disc 2 in and booted from it. Again, it tells me that it cannot find my cd drive. So I put the floppy disk in and boot from it with CD 2 in. The driver loads for the drive and it accesses it for about 1 seconds, then says to put the proper CD in. And alas, I get the same problem as I originally said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 OK, I am going to need some details, should have asked before. What is your mb, vid card, processor, name brand or home built? Also, did you download and burn these disks? md5sum check ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceStorm Posted April 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 (edited) OK, I am going to need some details, should have asked before. What is your mb, vid card, processor, name brand or home built? Also, did you download and burn these disks? md5sum check ok? Well I'm installing this on an old laptop Toshiba Satellite 305CDS. Here are the specs for it: Model name/No. DynaBook Satellite 305/300 / PA1261xx Processor MMX Pentium 166MHz Memory(MAX) 32MB(96MB) HDD 6.4GB Display Display 12.1inch TFT /DSTN 800x600 Display controller C&T B65555 Video RAM 2MB Sound PCI PC Card controller CardBus x2 USB 1port Yes, I downloaded all 3 ISO's from mandrakelinux.com. They burned fine with no errors, and the md5sum's were exact per the mandrake web site: d42231c6b9fc51628e239c222732133d Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso b8de38902ca851478f6bd938b9c57f27 Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD2.i586.iso 19c7e628a6da55adf7a84a06126c2ec4 Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD3.i586.iso Edited April 18, 2004 by IceStorm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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