Mandrake 10 Hosed My Particians

surfduke · 03-15-2004, 01:34 AM

I installed mandrake 10. The install went perfectly. Then upon reboot I realized I was jacked. WHen Lilo started all I got was the "L" and I was hung up. I grabbed my XP Pro CD and went to restore my MBR - XP Pro hung up..... I could not even reinstall XP from CD. So I took and old Win 98 startup disk and tried to load it. Hung on boot also!!!

Finally, I took SUSE 9.0 Pro..... Had it wipe out all my particians then I could Use the XP disk to repartician and install XP. I then Reimaged all my particians using Ghost.

OK now, I didn't blame Mandrake 10...... until I tried reinstalling it again...... BOOM.... same problem..... Beware!!!! Mandrake 10 Has serious issues!!!

trey85stang · 03-15-2004, 07:45 AM

hmmm.. there is another thread on this issue. I'm starting to wonder if it is hardware related.. what are your sys specs??

btw.. I had no problems installing with WinXP...

surfduke · 03-15-2004, 09:00 AM

P4 2.4 - OC'd to 3.01
ASUS P4P800 MoBo
1 ghz kingston PC3500 DDR
GeForce Ti 4200 GFX CARD
Soundblaster Live 5.1

Mandrake 9.0 - 9.2 installed fine on this system.

soloist · 03-15-2004, 09:12 AM

I have Mandrake 10 Community running on P4P800 Deluxe.
I have two physical disks, XP on MBR of hda, MDK10 on MBR of hdb, and I use bios to toggle between them at startup. I'm so ignorant of dual boot techniques that I physically detached the cables of hda when I did the Mandrake install. (It worked, but now I have to make a smoother boot process after the fact.)

surfduke · 03-15-2004, 09:29 AM

Bro.... that's a rough way to enjoy linux.... dual boot. M10 may dualboot fine on your system.... I think my problems are probably unique to only a few system types with certian hardware..... I am interested to see if anyone eles has this same problem.

divinerites · 03-15-2004, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by surfduke
M10 may dualboot fine on your system.... I think my problems are probably unique to only a few system types with certian hardware..... I am interested to see if anyone eles has this same problem.

Just had same problem here. PII and HD6Go ( WD AC36400L).

0 - fdisk 2Go(win) and 4Go(linux)
1 - install w98SE
2 - install mandrake 10.0
3 - reboot : Lilo prompt
A - Win98 fails immediatly (blinking cursor)
B - mandrake boot OK.

Partitions seems all OK. I'm investigating
D.

divinerites · 03-15-2004, 02:39 PM

Well it seems that the explanation is there :

https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959#c14

"if you do not create new partitions during the installation, but just use an existing one, everything goes fine"

1racerx · 09-30-2004, 10:02 PM

Edit: Sorry, posted in wrong thread.