Suse 9 Pro Load Failures & Errors
Just tried to load Suse 9 Pro on my son's Win98se box. He is suddenly fascinated by Linux games (he's 8.5yrs) and I'd just as soon he be comfortable with both Linux and M$. (M$ is necessary for his learning games else I'd purge it as a virus!) During the load I received what appeared to be sequential Failure messages re. gettext, e2fsprogs, and attr at 19%. Attempted Retry a couple of times and then bypassed them. When Suse tried to boot following an otherwise successful load I received this YaST2 message: "An Error occurred during initrd creation. Root Device: /dev/hda3 (mounted on / as reiserfs) Module List: reiserfs Kernel Version: 2.4.21-99-athlon (i586) Kernel Image: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-99-athlon" Should I just try reloading Suse or does this collection of Failures and Errors suggest a pattern indicative of a know particular problem? The motherboard is an ASUS A7V133 BIOS 1007 CPU 850MHz -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida Drake, Heathkit, Kenwood, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
doc wrote:
Just tried to load Suse 9 Pro on my son's Win98se box. He is suddenly fascinated by Linux games (he's 8.5yrs) and I'd just as soon he be comfortable with both Linux and M$. (M$ is necessary for his learning games else I'd purge it as a virus!)
During the load I received what appeared to be sequential Failure messages re. gettext, e2fsprogs, and attr at 19%. Attempted Retry a couple of times and then bypassed them.
It seems that the media you installed from could not be read properly. I don't think the installation is really ok.
"An Error occurred during initrd creation. Root Device: /dev/hda3 (mounted on / as reiserfs) Module List: reiserfs Kernel Version: 2.4.21-99-athlon (i586) Kernel Image: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-99-athlon"
You also need to perform the updates, after a good installation.
doc wrote:
During the load I received what appeared to be sequential Failure messages re. gettext, e2fsprogs, and attr at 19%. Attempted Retry a couple of times and then bypassed them. When Suse tried to boot following an otherwise successful load I received this YaST2 message: "An Error occurred during initrd creation. Root Device: /dev/hda3 (mounted on / as reiserfs) Module List: reiserfs Kernel Version: 2.4.21-99-athlon (i586) Kernel Image: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.21-99-athlon"
While awaiting an informed reply I tried running Repair off Disc 1 and after a couple of cycles it loaded the failed initial load of the three apps and appears to have fixed the initrd error as well. It is hard to evaluate since the children have seized control of the PC to play Asteroids! (They have been waiting a while to have Suse on their PCs instead of having to time-share Mommy's PC for access to Linux games.) Note: I suspect that the initial three app load failure was due to dust in the CD drive -- we all know how most pre-adolescent boys manage CDs and overall room cleanliness -- blew some air through the drive and all seems well for the moment! -- Thanks! doc Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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