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I don't know anything about karnels, so I can't really explain the problem or how it happend. I tried reinstlling Mandriva twice but that doesn't get rid of karnel panic
My computer froze. I turned in off and then when I turned it on again it gave my the error msg karnel panic. I didn't make any changes. Sorry, I do not remember the errors on the screen, i just remember they were a lot I reinstalled twice but got the same msg. I've done a lot since then and am full of error stories.
I decided to install Suse 10.2 network install. It was unable to install boot loader, so when it booted it got to a screen saying "Starting Ms-Dos" (??) and it stopped there. I was able too boot the system via boot.iso cd. The system was very slow, froze a couple of times, so I reinstalled it. This time instead of Ms-Dos is says that there is no operating system. I loaded the repair system program from the CD. It said that a package named smtp_deamon and sysvinit are missing. However, it couldn't install it. Tried to install boot loader a dozen times but no luck - ii returned an error msg "Error 21 - Selected disk does not exist". I went also to check the partitions and no mount points were set, although I did that during install. I tried to set them but it didn't let me - the menu was inactive.
Also, Gnome on the user account is broken - the panels are an inch wide and inactive.
How can I find out for sure and if it is hardware, and if it is, what can I do about it?
And, how can I trick the system into installing a bootloader?
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