[wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!

[Phil O'Connell]

Thanks Rose
I've loaded the websites into my favourites and will check them out. Meantime I did a reinstall over the existing installation using the upgrade option and this has reinstalled kppp so I can cannect using linux again and its resolved the reboot option. Still get the "ldm_validate partition table disk read failed"  line repeated about a dozen times at startup but doesn't seem to stop Mandrake running. Really only need to get sound sorted out now. if it workedin all previous versions it should work in this, I'll follow up on those sites you suggested. I see someone already has a query re a sound problem but theirs was onboard snd.
Many thanks
Phil
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rose McGillicuddy 
  To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [wellylug] reinstall gone wrong!



  ----- Original Message -----
  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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