[wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!

[Phil O'Connell]

I have followed the discussion on Rose's problems with interest and now encounter some installation problems of my own. I am running XP and Mandrake in a dual boot and previously ran 8.2 without any problems and 9.0. I Yesterday installed 9.1 initially using the upgrade option and it went OK. The interface was every bit as good as what previews and reviews said. however it failed to detect my sound card a Genius SM/32 which ran Ok in 8.2 and 9.0 and Win 9x ME & XP. I also lost my internet connection, then it began working after a reboot with the error message "can not load the accounting ruleset /Argentina.rst" and when booting came up with the error message "ldm_validate_partition table( ) disk read failed." When I went to log out it allowed me only to shut down. When I chose reboot an empty window came up with two option buttons OK or back. Clicking OK nothing happened but clicking back took me to the previous screen where I could only shutdown. Mandrake 9.0 gave me the op!
tion of shutting down or rebooting and rebooting in NT or linux plus choice of desktops (KDE Gnome etc) and I suspect 9.1 should too. I did a clean install but this failed to boot into linux once past the lilo boot sequence, the "ldm_validate_partition table( ) disk read failed." line kept comming up repeatedly and then the system refused to boot any further. I then ran Partition Magic from XP and completely cleaned the drive with Mandrake on it and did a clean reinstall. It has installed OK but still no sound, my internet connection is gone -kppp is not installed but it does recognise the modem still. The reboot and shutdown options are the same - I can only shutdown not reboot and don't get the option to choose which OS or desktop to reboot to. It recognises all my other hardware including 2 HDD, SCSI card, CDROM, CDRW, Internal Zip, External Zip, HP Printer, Scanner, Geforce card, monitor, RAM, usb etc.
I have used the install Cd's defaults all the way using the graphical installation mode and using all 3 CDs. I  am pretty new to linux and more familiar with windows. Can anyone suggest a possible solution. 

Phil


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