haggisinscotland Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hi I got hold of Mandrake 9.2 as I wanted to give it a try. I have a windows system and had 4 partitions on my hard drive. I deleted everything out of the F: drive for Linux about 10gb of space. Everything went well during the linux installation, it asked me to reboot I did this and selected Linux off the boot loader, it started loading up Linux then it seemed to freeze, I pressed ESC to go to the verbose/text install and it had stopped at the following section: finding module dependencies modprobe: modprobe: insmod pwc <failed> Is this an error with my hardware, or the partitioning I have on my hard drive? Any help will be appreciated before I try and reinstall. Thanks Haggis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Could you give some more details about your system hardware? What kind of computer, any usb devices, any thing you know about the motherboard, processor, ram, hard drives, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Let me guess: you have a (philips or logitech) webcam. Unplug the cam, the system will boot. Read my comments in this thread, this is the solution/fix for now, until you get a new kernel that is patched (but the fix works well, you can use the webcam and all): Thread about webcam problem Furthermore, on my site (see below, just above my signature) you can find instructions on how to get the webcam to give vga resolution instead of the smaller cif (or whatever) format. (adjust things for 9.2, the config instructions are not updated for 9.2 yet) Also, for webcams to take pictures I use the program SDLcam (in contrib or plf, don't know which one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggisinscotland Posted November 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hey spot on Logitech camera, unplugged it and it loaded. Thanks for the help, sorry if it was a newbie post. Haggis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Glad we could help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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