Booting Problem

[musichere]

I bought a new 160 GB Hard Drive and installed that. Then I installed Linux Mandrake 10.1 DVD on one of the 80GB partitions.

 

Then that was all going fine, but on the opening sequence there is a PPPo Failed, Eth1 Failed (or something like that)

 

It crashes during the searching for PPPo now.

 

Why does it load this wierd sequence of checks every time I load linux? is there a way to prevent this?

 

Also sometimes when I boot the computer it goes L 0707070707070707070707070707070707070707707070707070

 

Edited February 11, 2005 by musichere

[Ixthusdan]

Yes. If you turn off hard drake at boot, there is no hardware checks. But, your description is for networking, so shut off networking at boot. You can bring up the nework after boot (The internet is still networking)

I would be tempted to reinstall the boot loader, which is lilo.

[musichere]

My last post was innaccurate sorry about that, I've added some screenshots.

 

Thanks

[Ixthusdan]

07 means the bios failed to initialize the controller. Reinstall lilo.

Would you describe your networking setup?

[musichere]

OK the LILO is no longer a problem; I just repaired it using the mandrake CD. Only the eth1 FAILED part and then the ppp0 hanging up and not doing anything for 10 minutes (you can't hear anything from the processor either) is hanging it up.

[Ixthusdan]

I actually get eth0 failure at boot. It has no effect, and my network is fine. I would stop loading the net at boot and activate it when called. In other words, after the boot, activate it.

[musichere]

I don't know how to change the boot though. Is there a way for it not to load all that nonsense at the start, becuase there's no way for me to get out of it.l

[Cannonfodder]

When don't you go through mcc and setup the networking again? maybe the config files are snafu?

[bvc]

during boot you will see

Press "I" for interactive startup (or something)

so press I and you can choose what .....

 

after you've booted you can use the mandrake control center>System>Services to turn the Net off at boot

from commandline see

chkconfig --help

 

examples:

chkconfig --list (for a list)

chkconfig net off

chkconfig net on

chkconfig harddrake off

chkconfig harddrake on

 

also see the service command

service --help

service -s (for status)

service <name> stop

service <name> start

Edited February 13, 2005 by bvc

[musichere]

:(

 

I decided to format my entire PC and reinstall Windows. I still want Mandrake though, but when I boot the CD it still has the DOS installation rather than the graphical installation. Do you know what causes this?

[Ixthusdan]

A brand new video card from Nvidia can do this, or an ATI card can do this.

 

To reinstall windows without disturbing linux, use cd1 to restore the windows mbr, reinstall windows, then use cd1 to reinstall a boot loader. If you have a system with windows on it, you get used to reinstalling. Linux doesn't need that. B)

[musichere]

Can you explain these screens I get when trying to install Linux?

 

[Ixthusdan]

Try using the master cd device which is you dvd. See if that works. The other issue is a bad chip on one of your ram cards.

[musichere]

Try using the master cd device which is you dvd.

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Sorry I don't know what they means :huh: :wacko: :sad:

[Ixthusdan]

hdc= your dvd device and it is on the master secondary channel. hdd= your cdwriter which is the slave on the secondary channel. Sometimes two cd devices can create errors when on the same ide channel. (I always split them) So I would try loading from the master device, your dvd player.

 

In english, are you using your cdwriter to load the program or your dvd? Use the dvd.