Boot error from windows machine Mandriva Installation
I have a weird problem that noone seems to be able to help me out with
I really want to start getting to know Linux in it's different distros but my pc won't let me The PC: Make: HP Pavillion a414x OS: WinXP Pro SP2 CPU: Intel Celeron 2.6 Ghz default setting (not overclocked or anything) HDD : Maxtor 200 GB , Seagate 80 GB RAM: 1024 MB MB: It's an HP Bios as it comes standard with their pc's i dunno which make though (Still googling for it) The Maxtor 200 GB is partitioned : C:\ 102 GB E:\ 87.7 GB also have drive D:\ That's the 80 GB Seagate All partitions are NTFS GFX: ATI Radeon 9200 SEC 128 MB AUDIO: AC' 97 Audio codec (onboard sound card) Motherboard: Still trying to find out It's the standard Distro i'm trying to install on drive D:\ Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006 Problem Description: I insert the disc... it boots fine Splash screen appears I hit enter to start installation Progress bar starts loading and at 75% the pc reboots on it's own and repeats above process I have tried various distros such as knoppix,gentoo,fedora core, mandrake 10.1 and mandrake 10.0 community Every installation does as it's described above Could someone please help me with this so i can get a decent distro on my pc? Many thanks in advance |
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Raul M: This seems to be a problem with the Linux itself as the problem is only with this. So, I suggest that you contact the Vendor for further assistance.
Now Raul M: is a lad from the HP Helpdesk and says it's Linux itself I'm at a loss now |
Dunno if this is any help
Here is the bootloader for windows [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect Dunno if anything else is needed |
Anyone at all?
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I'll give up on this pc for now cheers anyways |
I have a suggestion. IF your running windows on the same machine and its already installed then look at your hard drive partitions, and your boot table. It seems to be a a major failure for it to reboot without reporting errors.
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ye si am running windows
The bootloader is posted Dunno on how to look at the "table" |
Well i am currently posting this from Suse LiveCD
I took out my graphics card and rebooted my system And all of the sudden it worked Will now try and burn the rest of mandriva cheers |
that didn't work
The funny thing is only the livecd of suse has worked.. it has to be booted in safe mode though |
I finally installed Mandriva
My bootoption were Boot: alt1 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off Now i can't boot into it It does show up though Asks me which OS i want to load |
Mikey I am trying to follow your post, are you trying to do a triple boot, as in having 3 operatings systems boot of the same machine?
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Linux likes its own partition, the table I refered to is important because window doesn't want to share the boot loader with another OS. I sugest you find a tutorial (on this website) for your particaular linux (slackware, suse, Fedora, etc) and follow the "Dualboot" instructions You have to prepare you system for dual booting unless you just want to boot from a CD into linux. Installing is a different story, It is a problem with linux, and windows.
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Okay
Right now i have Mandriva installed in ordet to get it installed i used ide=nodma apm=off and acpi=off I never got it to install before so that right there was progress on it's own... At least we know it's there now Now when i reboot my pc i get prompted My choices are : Linux Failsafe Windows XP When i select linux the pc reboots and starts again prompting me Winblows works fine though The installation is there I can't see the linux partition from windows |
Hmmm. My first thought is possibly a bad download of Mdv2006-free, or a bad disc. If you *did* verify the MD5sum of the iso(s), and you are sure the disc is good....
Perhaps you can boot the Suse Live-CD, and look at the lilo.conf file on the Seagate drive. I assume Suse will mount it read-only, at least. It will be under the "etc" directory under the Mandriva root partition (hdb1, I am guessing). So if Suse auto-mounts it, it would be someplace like "/mnt/hdb1/etc/lilo.conf". Posting that would help us see what the bootloader *thinks* it should be doing when you choose "Linux" from it. |
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