[olug] Ack! (And de-lurk)

[Jon]

Can you still boot the mandrake disk?  If not than your hardware changes somehow.


On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:15:20AM -0500, Mike Peterson wrote:
> Did you do an upgrade or a wipe clean and start fresh install?
> Did you format the drives on install?
> 
> 
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> From: foofish! [mailto:patrick at novia.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:20 PM
> To: olug at bstc.net
> Subject: [olug] Ack! (And de-lurk)
> 
> 
> I ordered Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat 7.1 from CheapBytes last week and got
> them today. I had a computer that was running RedHat 6 quite nicely but
> decided to install Mandrake on it (rue, rue, rue). Well, it was
> incredibly easy to install and everything went smoothly until it
> finished and rebooted. When it was loading linux it gave me an error
> (Out of Memory) and halted. I rebooted and it stopped in the same place,
> but gave me a different error. I tried using the boot disk, same thing,
> yet another error. Finally, I figure this isn't going to work and I bust
> out the RedHat cd. I boot from that, but when I hit enter and it starts
> loading, same thing again. I can't even boot from any Linux-type boot
> disks, and I seem to get different errors every time. I don't know what
> to think about this...
> 
> And I was really looking forward to running Mandrake, it detected all of
> my hardware right and everything!
> 
> Mike
> -- 
> Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
> 
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