[wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!

[Rose McGillicuddy]

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From: "Phil O'Connell" <phil.oconnell at paradise.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:35
Subject: Re: [wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!


> 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 option 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

Sorry to hear you are having problems - I know how frustrating that can be.
Two other places I look at, but most help has come from here, are a news
group "alt.os.linux.mandrake"  and LinuxQuestions.org.  Hope it's soon
fixed.
Rose
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