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Thread ID: 14644	2002-01-14 12:20:00	More Linux install woes	Guest (0)	Press F1

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31205	2002-01-14 12:20:00	Well I think I've finally installed Linux, install runs smoothly (which was a change from the last Linux CD I tried!) Now I get the LILO bootloader thing, and I press Enter on Linux, and some screen with heaps of different languages on it comes up (I think just a welcome type screen) and there it freezes. I have to reset the computer to start it again - everything locks up. Try the bootloader again, and try fail-safe... same thing happens... try linux-nbf (or something) and it gives lots of text then locks up again. Here's the text I get just before it locks up: ----- VFS:Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Trying to unmount old root...okay Freeing unused kernel memory 696k freed. INIT:version 2.78 booting ----- Any suggestions what I should try next? Is it another problem from my installation CD in which a crucial file doesn't work or something? Or should I just give up on Linux altogether? (since I still haven't even used Linux - only tried to install it... over and over and over). TIA Mike.	Guest (0)
31206	2002-01-14 12:24:00	PS - Mandrake 8.0	Guest (0)
31207	2002-01-14 13:15:00	...if you decide to give up on Linux - but remain interested in a *viable* alternative to Windows - don't forget 'freeBSD': http://www.freebsd.org/ Cheers!!! e_	Guest (0)
31208	2002-01-15 03:26:00	You're having a very 'challenging learning experience' aren't you? Did you make a Rescue disk? It might be worth trying that, and watching the screen messsages as it boots up in single user mode. (Scroll Lock should pause the screen). If you're using LILO you must be multibooting. Did you give the installation a proper disk? (partitioned as a Wxx partition, and rest un -allocated). If you left it with the partitions from your previous attempts, nasty things could have happened. I have a suspicion that the quickest thing would be to boot with the rescue disk (or make one using RAWRITE in DOS), and (linux) fdisk the hard disk, so all the linux partitions are deleted, do a DOS 'fdisk /mbr', and then try again from the CD. Excreta happens. I normally expect to install two or three times -- making wrong decisions on partition sizes or other things. Normally, errors give LOTS of messages, so I think your system was waiting for something to happen. Does it hang with the disk being very busy?	Guest (0)
31209	2002-01-15 08:50:00	Thanks for your suggestions, Graeme... I've got some more questions though: 1/ how do I make a rescue disk? On my last attempt I tried Expert install mode and created a boot disk, but when I booted from that disk it just gave me the option of starting Linux, which just gave me the same problem. 2/ What do you mean by 'proper disk'? I installed on an empty partition I had on here, which it formatted and installed onto. 3/ How do I Linux fdisk it? I can't get linux to start to do anything with... I am going to remove the partition and try again now, but I'm not holding my breath. :)	Guest (0)
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