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Thread ID: 18596	2002-04-28 10:09:00	More on my linux trouble	Guest (0)	Press F1

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46102	2002-04-28 10:09:00	Okay, after following the suggestions last time I posted my linux trouble, I can tell what I've done since. I've tried reinstalling AGAIN... Did a minimal install (didn't install anything extra when I came to the screen of what to install) and set it to load no services on bootup, so as to eliminate all that. I tried all options in the bootloader to see if I could get somewhere to type something, but everything just tries to boot, then just freezes. I don't get any chance to type in anything anybody suggested to try. I tried installing using a different video card driver (perhaps a generic one) but there was no option that I could find to use a different driver, so I tried different screen resolutions etc. But still the same problem - I get the colourful Welcome screen (the pic with Welcome in about 20 or 30 languages) and 'INIT: version 2.78 booting', at which point it freezes. I'll include here a copy that I painstakingly wrote out, then typed up of all that was on screen when I chose 'Linux-nofb' from the bootloader (you might need to 'View' the post to see more clearly what it says): ----------------------------- ide at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 hda: 39876480 sectors (20417MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: ATAPI 40x DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 <p5 p6> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 ide-floppy driver 0.97 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays md: autorun... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed INIT: version 2.78 booting ----------------------------- Can anybody help me? I really wanna get this going, but for some reason it doesn't want to get past that 'INIT version 2.78 booting'. Mike.	Guest (0)
46103	2002-04-29 00:47:00	You may well have already answered these... What Linux distribution? What sort of PC. I have loaded Linux on a few machines and the only real problem I had was with low spec machines (which is probably not the case with yours). What partitions have you created? Did you have Windows running on it before?	Guest (0)
46104	2002-04-29 01:51:00	Phil, Sorry, I forgot to include all the essential stuff :) Athlon 750, 256mb, 20Gb partitioned into about 15Gb and 5Gb (the 5gb for Linux, the 15Gb has Win XP installed). I think the Linux install may have split the 5Gb into a 4Gb and 1Gb for Swap partition. I let Linux format the partition before install, but yes, Windows XP was using the partition before I tried installing. I hope you can help :) Mike.	Guest (0)
46105	2002-04-29 03:19:00	Hi, whats you video card and monitor?. I would recommend 1inux mandrake 8.1 or 8.2(havent try 8.2 yet), extremely easy to install. 8.1 costs about $80 incl gst at dick smith, or you can download it for free if you have the time. I have installed on quite a few systems of varying specs with no probs except for nvidia cards which you have to log on as root and type 'depmod-a' reboot and your away laughing.	Guest (0)
46106	2002-04-29 04:00:00	John, I am installing (or trying to) Mandrake 8.1 (and have also tried 8.0 to the same result)... I also have an Nvidia card - TNT2 M64 32mb... how do I do what you suggest - 'log on as root and type 'depmod-a' reboot and your away laughing.' ??? This may be the answer to (not all) my problems :) Mike.	Guest (0)
46107	2002-04-29 12:30:00	Try RedHat???	Guest (0)
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