Mandrake install problem
 

Hi
I'm trying to install mandrake 9.1 on an old pentium 133MHz that is overclocker to a 200MHz. I have had no problems installing it on my other machines which are P200's not overclocker however when i boot from the mandrake 9.1 first cdrom i get the following text:
Booting from atapi cdrom:
1. FD (funy characters) system type-(00)

invalid system disk

I have had no problem with mandrake on my other machines which have exactly the same mobos. the hard drive is on the same channel as the cdrom the harddrive is a western-digital 2gb. thw system also has an old isa lan card on irq 5 and address 320H. Also when i boot from a flopy disk it says it cannot find the cdrom, however the bios detects the hdd and cdrom fine. and i have tried more than one cdrom drive with no effect.

fisr things first...

are you booting from a floppy? well obviously you are...go into bios and set your computer to boot from cdrom...it cant give you this error if your booting from the cdrom ehh?

I am booting from the cdrom this is what is confusing me. Sorry if i gave u the wrong impression the error message i get when booting from the cdrom

ok its gotta be the setup of your IDE devices.... try screwing around with master and slave, then try making them independant on their own IDE cable, if their is no extra IDE cable borrow one from another computer and after install work it from there...if it doesnt work tell me and ill thyink of something else...but gimme alot of detail on what it does ok?

have tryed differnet cdrom drives and on different ide channels
but to no avail If you want so more info just ask me what k

ok g if none of the following help ya start a new thread and put your original problem in there so itll show up as no reply....


1.if youve recently added RAM, remove it
2.remove your hard drive and try it
3.boot from floppy
4.try starting a diffrent version setup and just do an update within the older version
5.start windows setup, if theres a severe problem windows is good for making sence of it


I know a p200 will run linux...I persoanlly have a p200 with 9.0 with the kernel and surrounding files of 9.2....


and lastly tell me the EXACT boot order of your BIOS...try maybe just booting from plain ol CD-ROM instead of CDROM,A,C or cdrom,c,a anyways ggimme all info that you can

I have updated the bios and now it will boot from the cd however i now get a cannot access the crom error in part of the intsall were it loads the installation into the ram

bad ram stick possibly? your gonna have to try diffrent things to see what could be the problem...to see if its the hard drive just remove it and try to run setup, try to remove some ram though that might fix it.....I highly doubt the problem is caused by overheatage but try to run it with no case

if it works tell me...if it doesnt gimme a couple hunches on what you think it could be,

keep trying

i think the problem lies with the ide interface. I have tryed different hdd's different ram different lan cards different cdrom drives. also ihave tryed using a pci hdd controller and it seems to work how ever i then get the error that it cannot acces the cdrom dirve or i get the error message saying no cdrom detected

Most install guides or manuals tell you to not overclock until the OS is installed. Have you tried installing at the regular speed of 133? 200 is a serious overclock for that chip. You shouldn't have any problem getting it installed at that lower speed. I installed Debian (and NetBSD as well) on a Cyrix PR150+ based system and 48mb EDO ram in it. That's a 120mhz chip with no mmx instruction set. I ran it with KDE1.1 for a while and it didn't complain - about the same speed as Win98 was on it. I got Win95 speeds back when I lightened up and used used XFCE for my WM.

You've tried all the hard stuff already. Can't hurt to do this. Clock 'er back up when you get it installed :D