Guest chancec Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 I've looked for answers to these questions and haven't found an answer (at least not one that I can understand). My first issue is this: I installed Mandriva 2008 One live GNOME cd onto an external USB hard drive and set my BIOS to boot from the USB before the internal HDD. Everything goes fine until I reboot after the install. When I try to reboot I get Error 6 failure to mount ext3 file system or something similar. So, after a while I tried pulling out my internal hard drive and reinstalling Mandriva on the external. This works and everything runs normally unless I put my internal drive back in. Now I get Error 22 when both drives are connected. It kinda sucks having to pull the drive out of my laptop everytime I want to use Mandriva and I can't get anything off of my internal. I don't get it...with both drives connected is GRUB trying to boot from my internal drive for some reason? Even though it's not anywhere in /boot/grub/menu.lst? Something in the kernel being confused by the other drive? Second problem is when I plug in my USB printer I get an error message saying "CUPS cannot be installed" that stays on my screen until I logoff. When I type in printerdrake from the terminal as root I get a list of packages that aren't installed and the Mandriva Printer Management App comes up and freezes. I tried downloading CUPS from the Software Management but it says I can't select any of those packages. Sorry if this is long. I'm new to linux so be gentle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chancec Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Just in case this might help someone else...I fixed my first issue by using the instructions at this forum (slightly modified of course) In the terminal as root I used this command: mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod /boot/[desired initrd name]-usb.img [kernel version as listed by uname -a command in terminal] After I ran that I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to use the new .img file name instead of the original .img file name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JimDandy Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Thanks for this tip. I'm going to try it out on my USB drive install of 2008.1 beta 2. Same problem during boot. I had filed a bug which is now in the cooker tracker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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