Mandrake 10.1 CD Upgrade from Release 9.2

[Guest Prince Riley]

Hello everyone,

 

I've serached the forum for help with this and haven't found anyhting that come close so I am posting this in the hope someone can tell me what to do next or point out my oversight.

 

During my upgrade of my Mandrake 9.2 system to 10.1 from CD-ROM I encountered the following problem during the install bootloader phase.

 

The message reads ... "bootloader failed in partition_table::DOS=HASH(0x8C2F158) "

 

I am attempting to make this new version boot from a floppy instead of from the hard drive (which is how the prior version booted)

 

Thanks in advance to everyone for your suggestions and help on this

[ianw1974]

I would suggest you do a clean install. Mandrake 9.x is devfsd based, where as 10.1 is udev based. This in itself is a main problem for the upgrade, along with others.

 

Most people here will suggest a clean install rather than an upgrade, purely because lots of problems can be encountered with upgrades.

 

Can't help you with booting from floppy, as I always used hard disk boots.

[Lexicon]

Maybe You create LILO on floppy disk? type

lilo /dev/hda

Search /etc/fstab for bug

....Lex

[pmpatrick]

I believe 9.1 was the last version that had a kernel image and initrd that were small enough to allow making a boot floppy without going through a lot of hassles. That's probably why you are getting the error message. You can do a regular install and then easily make a boot cd by running as root:

 

# /sbin/mkrescue --iso

 

That will automatically generate an iso named rescue.iso which you can burn to make a boot cd. See man mkrescue for more details.

 

Also, as noted above, a fresh install will work better. There were a lot of changes from 9.2 to 10.1(devfs to udev; kernel 2.4 to 2.6, etc).