I first started by trying to install MDK 10.1.
I installed it to my 73GB Cheetah drive, and the installation went smooth.
This drive is set to be the first drive (in the Asus P4P800 BIOS).
When I try to start MDK after the installation, the OS fails to mount the root filesystem.
This is what I see (before the startup stops):
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creating root device
mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags defaults
well, retrying without the option flags
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
well, retrying without any flags
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
unmount /initrd/sys failed: 2
unmount /initrd/proc failed: 2
initrd finished
freeing....
Kernel panic.....
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My system:
P4 3.2GHz (Northwood)
Asus P4P800 (bios 1016)
1GB RAM (2 x 512MB)
Adaptec 39160 controller
Seagate Baraccuda 7200.7 120GB 8MB buffer (Parallal ATA)
Seagate Baraccuda 7200.7 120GB 8MB buffer (Serial ATA)
Seagate Cheetah 15k.3 73GB
*** BUT *** , I tried installing MDK in the same system, with exactly the same settings, and it worked !!! The OS started properly and I logged in!!!
But, some of my devices were not detected properly (like my onboard 3COM 3C940 1GBE controller).
I know Mandy 10.1 detects it properly during the install, so I though about upgrading the working Mandy 10.0 to 10.1.
But, after I selected "Upgrade Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community)" in the Mandy 10.1 installation, at the next stage (it jumpted straight to Partitioning), it only gave me an error:
"An error occurred
Oops, no root partition."
Why the f**k MDK 10.1 has a problem with root partitions in my system ???
Why can't it work where the previous release did ???
Could it be that this is a bug with MDK 10.1?
Could a BIOS update fix this?
Thanks for the help!
Tom
P.S. - this is a continuation of another thread (
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=238448), I just thought this deserves a seperate thread as the central issue has changed.