Hi, I've just tried many times to install the Mandriva 2006 that came on the specal edition of LXF, and it crashes during install, on the "loading program into memory" stage.

any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. with cake or virtual cake offered!

i thought it was my cd drive so i tried it wih 3 others with the same effect. the funny thing is i can run mandrake 10 community fine, and Kubuntu and OpenSuse slick 10.1 fine aswell but its mandriva that i want!

i wrote down the log and the kernel message to se if it can give any clues so here it is.

* IDE/1: hda is ST340016a thats my hard disc
* IDE/0: hdc is a MATSHITA CD-RW CW-7586 thats my cdr, seems ok
* mounting /dev/hdc on /sysroot/tmp/image as type iso9600
* have to insmod isofs
* needs isofs
succeeded isofs
* found a Mandriva Linux CDROM, good news! you'd think so !
* total memory: 256 mbytes
* mount_clp_mag_preload: /sysroot/tmp/image/install/stage2//mdkinst.clp into sysroot/tmp/stage2 (preload=1)
* opening /proc/splash failed
* short write (Bad address)
* third party: using modules location /sysroot/tmp/image
* fopen (stage1.c:348) failed: no such file or directory
* unsetting automatic
* exiting bootsplash
* opening /proc/splash failed

this tells me it maybe cant load the install image?

this is the kernel message i get

<4> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
<4> end_request: I/O error, dev HDC, sector 1237052 this changes as the sequence repeats
<3> Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 309263 this also changes when it repeats
<4> hdc: media error (bad sector): status =0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
<4> hdc: media error (bad sector): error = 0x34 {AbortedCommand LastFailedSense = 0x03}

this all repeats with different sectors on HDC and different logical blocks, this makes me think the cd itself is no good. like i said, i tried different drives and other distros work fine on my pentium 4 2ghz 256mb ram system.

any thoughts? thank you in advance.

i had problems trying to install mandriva 06 using the gui it would just die on me with some random error message, at the bootloader stage opress esc and type text that will load a text version of the instll and see if that does anything, it worked for me with my probobly.

Hi mate, thanks for the reply

it seems we have two things in common, we're both Michaels and we're both in Australia!

anyway, i guess i should have mentioned this in the original post, I'm already using the text installer.

the graphical doesnt work for me because i'm currently using an on board graphics card. mandrake community 10 installed on my computer in text only. OpenSuse 10 was fine with graphical, as was Kubuntu, i think Mandrake/Mandriva is different.

In another forum someone hs suggested it is a disc read error and my drive is not the culprit because i have tried so many. My BIOS reads my drive but the Mandriva boot install image cant seem to be loaded into memory.

I have gone and bought 512mb of ram today to see, and i needed it anyway.

thanks for your post. We'll see what unfolds!

It means that installation media is corrupted, i.e. CD, verify the md5sum of the iso image with one provided on official mandriva website. Probably the magazine that supplied the CD to you had a faulty iso itself so I would advice you to actaully verify the md5sum of that iso itself at first place and then verify the md5sum of baked CDs.

Do you really mean to say CD-DRIVE and not CD?? If yes then you know the culprit, either the image, or the CD itself.

thank you nitinatindore. i'm glad that someone could tell me what my kernel message was saying.

I am new to this, i like mandrake and thats why i want mandriva. but how do i check an md5sum? also do you think the magazine will replace the cd i bought with their magazine?

(btw i did mean CDROM drives, i tried with three separate drives. I have become good friends with my magnetic phillips head screwdriver!)

thank you so much for your help.

I think that you might be having a windows m/c then you have to download md5sum.exe from here:
http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

If you have linux already installed then open a terminal and
$ md5sum whatever_image.iso
should give you the 128 bit md5 hash, for e.g. none such md5sum could be:
c7a0a1b8ccc2d81206c0ff4e48ef3057 Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-DVD.i586.iso this is the actual md5sum for Mandriva 2006.0 DVD

This hash should be checked against offcial md5 hashes on the websites like this:
http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/m...D.i586.md5.asc

I dont know that the kind of relationship with your magazine vendor but probably he shud replace the CD, if its faulty.

For more information on waht md5sum is serach google, in short it is assumed that it is impossible to find a same md5sum for any two differnt file, in a fesible time frame with present computaional power