Roodog Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I have Mdk 9.1 Bamboo installed and working on it's own drive, dual booting WinME on a 2nd drive, but now wish to try Mdk 10. My system is P111 500, 256kb ram, generic CDROM & SCSI CD-R/RW burner. I have the 4 disk set of Mdk 10 Official, but I am unable to boot from either CD1/CD2, and when I boot from floppy, I get as far as the "Loading Artep SCSI Drivers" line and there it hangs. I have tried using the "linux noapic nolapic" from the F1 screen, no joy. I tried using "expert" and choosing the cdrom.ko, but was stumped when it asked for parameters. All help gratefully received. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 I had similar probs with my last install of 10 (thought he AMD 64 version) I had a spare PC so did this... I copied all the CD's to another PC and then mounted them and created links to /var/www/html/mdk10 then I did a network install , chose http and after working out it wants the intial / for /mdk10 did the install that way! might work for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Downloaded? md5sum check good? Burn speed slower? Good media? Oh yeah, use the noapic nolapic switch! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roodog Posted May 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Disks were purchased from a reputable on-line retailer. Re your 2nd point, I have been trying every hint/suggestion I can lay hands on, and this was one I came across in this forum, actually. I mentioned it to forestall ppl suggesting I try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 If you didnt try setting disk to LBA in bios you can try that else you could copy the files from the CD's into the MDK 9 home dir (if u have room) and try a HDD install or try a network install if you have another PC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roodog Posted June 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 Changing the drives to LBA in Bios didn't help - guess I'll copy the disks to one of the drives and try a hdd install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 might work better. what seems to happen is it probes the IDE drives and somehow looses the CD! It might still work with a HDD install but I found if this happens and you have a spare PC then the network install is lost reliable. (much as its a pain) you can even use a winblows PC of you have to! using http or ftp :D good luck on HDD install tho' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 Do the F1 key at boot of the install disk, and type alt1 if you want, you can add the options: noapic nolapic but I'd first try without those. alt1 means alternative kernel 1, which is the 2.4.24 (25?) kernel, the 2.6 kernel is only 2.6.3 which has some problems with some scsi devices - and my guess is that that is your problem (remember, the 2.4 kernel series wasn't considered ready for prime time until 2.4.8 came out..).... Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest philbobilbo Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Hello, all. Brand noob here (yeah, I know, some of you grizzled Mandrake veterans probably want to replace the "n" with a "b"), and just want to say, artee, that your "alt1" suggestion has gotten me around an install problem where my boot cd (even though it started properly) said "no cdrom found". Thanks again. I'm a computer repair guy that's dealt with Windows for years (and some Macs), so I think it's good to learn this technology. Like I've told my older brother: Linux is coming; Microsoft has to be scared to death. To me, it's the next big thing (that or Windows Longhorn)... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Just to be sure... you did set the bios to boot CD before HDD-0 ? It really should of booted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roodog Posted June 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Thanks to everyone who responded, but I'm calling it quits and sticking to Mdk 9.1 I tried : changing drive settings to LBA in Bios, a HDD install from another drive, using alt1 at the F1 screen, and finally I stripped my machine down to bare essentials and almost succeeded. With my SCSI burner unplugged and the card removed, and my SCSI Zip drive unplugged, I was able to initiate an install - got as far as loading the system when the speed dropped to a crawl, then files were reported as having errors, so I pulled the plug. Now, how do I reclaim the 6 gigs I had allocated to 10, and use them for my 9.1 "/" partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.