Guest gitm Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 (edited) Hi, I've searched this forum and found a similar problem but not the same. I am having trouble with Mandriva Limited Edition 2005. When i insert disk, a screen comes up and says " Press F1 for options" and "press enter to install" If i press enter a loading screen will come up, but after about 2 minutes a box comes up on screen with an OK saying "FATAL ERROR Fatal Error finishing initialization" If, at the start, I press F1 and type in " vgalo" this happens: it says loading into memory. Sometimes almost straight away it comes up with Fatal error. and other times the loading bar will be almost complete and then it will come up with fatal error. I have tried in text mode same thing. I have tried disabling Plug n play OS, and disabled Legacy USB support but it made no difference. I have also used live cd's Knoppix and Freebsd with no problems. when i press F4 it has this: <4> hdc: media error (bad sector): status = 0x51 (drive ready seek complete error) <4> hdc: media error (bad sector): error 0x30 (LastFailedSense = 0x03) <4> ide: Failed opcode was: unknown <4> end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1254856 <3> Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 313714 <6> bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on if i press F3 it has this: Found Mandrake linux CD ROM good news! Total Memory: 512 MBytes mount_clp_may_preload: /sysroot/tmp/image/install/stage2//mdkinst.clp into/ sysroot/tmp/stage2 (preload=1) short write (bad address) Third party: using modules location /sysroot/tmp image fopen (stage1.C:337) failed no such file or directory unsetting automatic exiting bootsplash My PC is AMD64 Athlon 3200+ 2.0ghz Processor, 160 gig 140Free, 512mb RAM. Someon told me to try 64 version but it will take me about a year to download and i just forked out $24.95 for this one, Can someone help me please? Thanks!! Edited October 7, 2005 by gitm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Itlooks like that your cdrom device is your secondary master (hdc) and that either you have a bad burn or a bad disk. So, reburn for a new disk and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 As Ix says, you got some media probs there. Burn at the slowest possible speed, but first, it would be best to do an MD5SUM check on the ISO image to make sure it's OK. Otherwise, if not, you'll need to download again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gitm Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Thanks guy's for your help! I burnt it again but accidently at high speed, But it worked anyway and now i have mandriva up and running without any other problems as yet! Also i typed in: linux noapic nolapic acpi=off ide=nodma ( i saw that in a post that was a similar problem as mine) and the combination of all that worked fine Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPanic Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Exactly the same problem here with an Athlon XP 2200+ (32bit)... And with a Magazine DVD which worked on 4 PCs before. Perhaps it's really that nolapic switch I havent tried... I'll post... See you. Panic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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