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Hey Folks.
I'm new to the world of Slackware, and I thought I would dive in with the latest version (9). I downloaded the ISO (verified it using md5hash) and burnt it. When I try to boot from it, everything goes fine, until it's time to mount the CD-ROM to run setup...
I type "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt" (hdd is my CD-ROM drive), and then I wait...
and wait...
and wait...
Finally it says something along the lines of "unable to mount because of wrong file system specified, bad superblock, or too many filesystems mounted". Then I run dmesg and I see it says something like " drive irq timeout error=0x58 { ..." and a bunch of things like "DriveSeek" or something.
I was wondering if anyone had any insight into what this problem could be...I was thinking it could be my crappy chipset (VIA KT400), as when I try to boot the same CD in a computer based on the nVidia nForce it works fine. My CD-ROM drive is a Creative 52x MX IDE drive and I am using the bare.i kernel to boot from the CD.
Any insights?
Thanks, Phil
If you can boot from the CD, and you get to a login prompt, there is no need to mount the cd. During the installation, setup will probe for the install CD.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your question?
Don't use Partition Magic or other partition utility to partition u're hdd. Instead u should use the fdisk from win98 to make u're partition table. I'm sure the problem its here. Try to partition u're hdd from scratch with FDISK.
Originally posted by DaOne If you can boot from the CD, and you get to a login prompt, there is no need to mount the cd. During the installation, setup will probe for the install CD.
Maybe I am misunderstanding your question?
Yeah, sorry, I guess I wasn't that clear.
When I try to mount the CD myself, it doesn't work. And the installer hangs whenever I try to run it because of that problem (remember that Slack, and most installer CDs for that matter, boots from an initrd); it cannot mount the CD-ROM drive.
I partitioned the hard disk using fdisk that comes with Openwall (whatever version that is.)
I suspect the problem lies in the VIA KT400 Chipset (lousy budget chipsets!)
Thanks,
P.
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