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I experienced the same exact thing and i'll be damned if it wasnt my CDROM drive ... kind of ... it is a combination of just the "right" hardware and the base of it is the Award BIOS ... not the revision of the "s/w" in it but the actual version of the BIOS ... more than likely if you look at the Award BIOS revision # it is version 6.00 or similar. And you are probably running a SCSI card ... Symbios or Adaptec and a scsi CDROM. This is a documented problem with isolinux. Mandrake only uses the isolinux to boot cd #2 and floppy emulation to boot disc #1. Easiest solution is put an IDE CD in until you get the install complete and then pull it when your done. |
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I searched the net over and over and over looking for a solution to the problem and that is the only resolution I could come up with and that was purely out of deduction because no one ever documented it anywhere else. |
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Laterz |
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Manson |
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Sparc Dev |
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:53:43 +0200 |
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Henti Smith <bain@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Howdy all |
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> Been trying to get gentoo installed on a IBM PC server 330 machine. |
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> I've tried all the ISO's all bomb with "Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it" |
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> error. |
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> Mandrake boots fine ... but I cannot get to reiserfs to create my drives. |
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> I'm trying some other things to get the gentoo install going. |
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> at least I can mount the CDROM once in rescue in mandrake .. |
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> but no mkreiserfs :( |
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> anyway .. |
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> Just though you guy might know about this |
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> Henti Smith |
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> _______________________________________________ |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o |
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