No load when installing Mandrake9.1!! - Tech Support Forums

KenKun · April 5th, 2003, 02:34 AM

Hey guys ..
I downloaded and made Mnandrake 9.1 CDs (thanx to crouse

)
I tested the CD and it booted automatically in windows ... no problems so far .. the CDs are OK, all three of them ..

When i rebooted the system from the CD drive with Mandrake CD1 in the drive, it detected the CD and greeted me with the screen where i have to press F1 or Enter.
When i press Enter, nothing happens .. the CD spins a little then stops with totally black screen. (i waited for few minutes without any reaction)
When i press F1, type expert then enter, the same thing happens! no CD loading!!

Now do you have any idea about this problem?

PS. i once installed Drake 9.0 on this same machine without problems.

EP-8KHA+/XP1900+/1GB PC2700/Ti4200/80GB Maxtor/Intel NIC ....

Regards

Xeroid · April 5th, 2003, 02:44 AM

Sounds fishy. Did you run the MD5 sums?

Mike

the jester · April 5th, 2003, 02:48 AM

I guees as Mike said - try the MD5sums but if the 3 cds are working in windows it does sound odd

I wonder if it might be

a) PNP in the bios needs disabling

b) a framebuffer issue with the Geforce 4200

(admit I'm fishing with b) - I'll keep thinking - yesterday was a rainy hanami down here, so understand if it takes some time....

KenKun · April 5th, 2003, 02:49 AM

Yes Mike

I tested the ISOs before burning with md5summer (md5v11024), it stated that they were OK.
After burning i put the CDin my drive and it loads fine in windows .. i can explore the CD and it seems fine to me ..

What do you think?
Should i burn once again?

Edit> PnP is enabled in my BIOS, but i remember when i installed Mandrake9.0 last Oct., the setup went fine even that PnP was enabled.

I will try to disable it though .. thanx for the suggestion

Xeroid · April 5th, 2003, 02:52 AM

Could be a bad burn but I was also thinking about what the jester mentioned. Could be a video issue. You already have PNP disabled in you BIOS from when you did your 9.0 install don't you?

Xeroid · April 5th, 2003, 03:54 AM

Have you tried to type F1 and then type TEXT and tried doing a text install? Also I read something about booting from CD#2 which uses a safer boot process and when prompted change to CD#1.

http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/Mandrake/...86/INSTALL.txt

KenKun · April 5th, 2003, 03:57 AM

I re-burned the ISO CD1 only, and this time i used the option *Disk at once* by Nero.
I will try again, and then i will try the CD2 trick .. thanx Mike

BTW, PnP was/still Disabled ..

.. i just checked that minutes ago ..

KenKun · April 5th, 2003, 04:05 AM

I tried the CD2 with the very same result!!

I even tried both my CD drives with the same result .. not action just a black screen afer the load bar of the geerting screen is up to the max !!

Xeroid · April 5th, 2003, 04:37 AM

KenKun, do you still have your 9.0 disks? Can you boot to them? Might tell us something.

Good luck . . . time for bed.

I'll check back in the morning.

Mike

nukes · April 5th, 2003, 06:28 AM

I'm quite glad I haven't put 9.1 pon any systems. They have rushed it a bit IMO to keep up with RH, but they used an alpha-stage kernel (2.4.21) which by its very nature is unstable.