Zend Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 I get this during the formatting step of a mdk 10.1 install, my hard drive is a 300GB maxtor something or other sata. My current partition scheme is: NTFS 80GB NTFS 166GB Linux Swap 2GB Ext3 32GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 hdlists are the headers for the rpm packages. Seems like you you had a bad download or burn of your CD's. Check the md5sum to make sure there OK. How to? http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=32853 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 I get this during the formatting step of a mdk 10.1 install, my hard drive is a 300GB maxtor something or other sata. My current partition scheme is: NTFS 80GB NTFS 166GB Linux Swap 2GB Ext3 32GB <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Same problem over here! Now i have found out (by trying to install Ubuntu wich didnt let me continue at the partitioning stage, and by executing qtparted in knoppix) that my HD have gone bad (!?) Not sure if MDK 10.1 has cause this, but before trying to install 10.1 i had MDK 10.0 installed and working fine, so... BTW i did not change the HD partition layout since i was gonna use the same partitions as i had for 10.0. Im gonna swap the HD and see ir Ubuntu installs fine, if it does and there is no prob with the new HD, ill try installing 10.1 to see if it causes any problem or not. Would it be possible for you to get hold of a knoppix CD and try qtparted to see if there is something wrong with your HD? Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cheesehazard Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 same thing happens to me. I have a hp pavillion n5425. I have mandrake 10.0 installed on it and runs fine other than the usb not working. I bought the dvd from mandrake website. I installed it on my brothers pc first and it ran fine and still is running fine. I tried to install it onto my laptop and i get that damn error. I tried to just upgrade it and it did. After it tries to go into the os it goes to a black screen and stays there. Ive tried going into all differnt modes and it does this no matter what. I know my hard drive works fine because i reinstalled mandrake 10.0 back onto it and it works fine. Any help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Just some ideas here: sata driver problem ? Error scenario: The nv_sata driver does extremely verbose logging via the kernel.Why: A bug in the nv_sata driver causes it to flood syslog with logging messages on any disk activity. Solution: Disable the SATA channels you are not using in the BIOS. or something else I noticed... they moved the hdlists on the servers, but if your installing from discs, I don't know how that would affect anything. from ../base/hdlist.cz to media_info/hdlist.cz cheesehazard, I had tried an upgrade first here too, but probally due to the change from 10's Xfree to 10.1's Xorg and my video card, I had to go with a clean install instead to get things running smoothly and error free. With the upgrade, mine seemily stuck on the black screen too (took a few minutes to clear), and took forever to boot or login. After the clean install... things are much quicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elkarama Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 Hi, I found the solution for the "no hdlists found" error message. It is the absence of the hdlists file from media/media_info folder. Younes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FloatCrash Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 I solved this problem by simply changing my cd-rom drive. I had mitsumi cd-r(4x4x32)(setup crashed at "no hdlists found") i ve put samsung cd(42) - setup completed sucsessfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ALL41_Eggy Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 I'm having the same problem. I have two HD's installed (identical drives 40gb seagates) One is an NTFS drive with the contents of the 10.1 DVD in a directory, the other is empty. I boot from a CD (just a 8mb boot image not the full install) During setup everything works fine, the install files are read from the first drive OK and I get to partitioning the other drive. I choose to wipe the disk and repartition. Mext formatting is carried out. I'm not sure if the formatting has completed but after about 20 secs or so I get the hdlist error. Maybe the file is just in the wrong place in the 10.1 distribution? What's the file called and where should it reside? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest twrock Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 I had this problem while attempting 10.1 install on a 40gb IBM HD. HD was partitioned/formatted as 25gb FAT32 and 5gb FAT with 10gb left empty for Linux partitioning. My solution: remove the 5gb FAT partition, re-partition the 5gb, and format it as FAT32 instead. The Linux install worked fine after this when choosing "use free space." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ALL41_Eggy Posted February 11, 2005 Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 I'll try using FAT but the HD I was installing on was completely empty, no partions. I let the install 'wipe the entire disc' and it partitioned it using the Linux default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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