Hello all!

First post. I've had a flirtation with various distros since picking up Mandrake (5.*)back in the last century. I have been through a number of installs of Debian 3.* on old abandonned boxes. I know about .5% of Bash commands and even less of the arguments and options. In a shell, my most frequent commands are "man" and "info". I fell off the FOSS wagon around 2003 when laptops became the primary tools for myself and my "road warrior" wife. With the advent of simple(r) wireless options, my interest has been rekindled. I recently turned a couple of our Win XP laptops into dual boot machines. My wife thinks I'm a hacker, but I'm more of a persistent blunderer.


Here's the problem. The 2008 install media worked fine in my Toshiba A100, ca 2006, but I am unable to boot from the same DVD on my older Compaq Presario 2500 ca 2003. Under the previously installed Mandriva version, the install disk appears as a text file.

What's mysterious is that I successfully installed 2007.1 Free on the same box from DVD just weeks earlier. Also, I have no problem booting ISO Linux in Knoppix 5.1 or the Ultimate Boot Disk, both on CD-RW.

The optical drive is LG DST GCA-4040N DVD+RW. Boot sequence has been set to boot first from optical drive.

Any ideas? All suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Ian in Nova Scotia

Hi, I also have trouble with newer kernels.


http://forum.mandriva.com/viewforum....fe8d4bdb25c422

Then I found this thread...

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic....fe8d4bdb25c422

I hope this helps you too.

I also read during this research that the kernel 2.6.22.<7(less than 7) have not yet fully SATA compatible.

It was somebody talking about one of two laptops that did not install. And I thought because I too have trouble with running 2.6.22+ kernels, maybe you have a similar situation.

Regards, Glenn

Thanks for the response Glenn.

Your information is all good and I'll keep it in mind, but I don't know if I have kernel troubles - I can't load the kernel yet ;-)

I'm typing in my Win partition this evening. I think trying to install a release candidate was just asking for trouble. I did it because I read that the 2.6.20+ kernel had built in support for Broadcom wireless cards.

On the machine where the install went smoothly, not only can I not configure for a Broadcom card, but I lost my Intel 3495 wireless connection which I had with the 2.6.15 kernel.

I'll wait for updates to come out of the cooker in the next day or two, then I may just install 2007.1 again and wait until 2008 is made idiot-proof :-)

Cheers
Ian G

LOL, I too am waiting for the idiot proof versions.

I can't stop laughing!

Cheers, Glenn