Installing 7.3 - HELP!!! - openSUSE Users

Installing 7.3 - HELP!!!

Keith Gibbons

22 Oct 2001 22 Oct '01

19:15

Hi, Just received 7.3 and went to do a fresh install after fdisk'ing my previous 7.2 installation. Tried twice so far. First time chose auto install and when finished could not go into X - got several errors that seemed to be connected to missing libs and through me back to the prompt. Second time chose manual install, everything seemed to go normally, rebooted as per installation instructions and had a kernel panic - could not mount root partition. Has anyone else had any problems? I have had no problems at all with all the previous versions up to 7.2 using the same PC hardware. This machine has been running 7.2 since it came out. Athlon 1.2 ECS Mainboard 512M Ram TNT2 Video Card Any ideas greatly appreciated Keith Gibbons, Ireland

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Mads Martin Joergensen

22 Oct 22 Oct

22:19

New subject: [SLE] Installing 7.3 - HELP!!!

* Keith Gibbons [Oct 22. 2001 23:02]:

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into X - got several errors that seemed to be connected to missing libs and through me back to the prompt. Second time chose manual install, everything seemed to go normally, rebooted as per installation instructions and had a kernel panic - could not mount root partition.

You might want to try to specify append="noapic" when booting the image. And if you get to the lilo.conf add noapic to the append line there too. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.

Keith Gibbons

23 Oct 23 Oct

08:12

New subject: [SLE] Installing 7.3 - HELP!!!

Tried your suggestion - no improvement. The exact error is as follows...... Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:43 Any indication as to the cause?? Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mads Martin Joergensen" To: "Keith Gibbons" Cc: "SuSE Linux" Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Installing 7.3 - HELP!!!

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* Keith Gibbons [Oct 22. 2001 23:02]:

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into X - got several errors that seemed to be connected to missing libs and through me back to the prompt. Second time chose manual install, everything seemed to go normally, rebooted as per installation instructions and had a kernel panic - could not mount root partition.

You might want to try to specify append="noapic" when booting the image.

And if you get to the lilo.conf add noapic to the append line there too.

-- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.

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Dee McKinney

22 Oct 22 Oct

22:42

New subject: [SLE] Installing 7.3 - HELP!!!

Keith, Since 7.3 is un-available up here in Alaska, no chance of helping you. Typically I try to use the default packages selected by a install on a new release. /Dee "Keith Gibbons" wrote:

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Hi, Just received 7.3 and went to do a fresh install after fdisk'ing my previous 7.2 installation. Tried twice so far. First time chose auto install and when finished could not go into X - got several errors that seemed to be connected to missing libs and through me back to the prompt. Second time chose manual install, everything seemed to go normally, rebooted as per installation instructions and had a kernel panic - could not mount root partition. Has anyone else had any problems? I have had no problems at all with all the previous versions up to 7.2 using the same PC hardware. This machine has been running 7.2 since it came out.

Athlon 1.2 ECS Mainboard 512M Ram TNT2 Video Card

Any ideas greatly appreciated

Keith Gibbons, Ireland

Keith Gibbons

23 Oct 23 Oct

08:10

New subject: [SLE] Installing 7.3 - HELP!!!

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Keith,

Since 7.3 is un-available up here in Alaska, no chance of helping you. Typically I try to use the default packages selected by a install on a new release.

/Dee

"Keith Gibbons" wrote:

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Hi, Just received 7.3 and went to do a fresh install after fdisk'ing my

Thanks Dee, I am the same, I have not tried to install anything unusual - very disappointing really as I have never had any problems with previous releases using the same hardware. Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dee McKinney" To: Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Installing 7.3 - HELP!!! previous

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7.2 installation. Tried twice so far. First time chose auto install and when finished could not go into X - got several errors that seemed to be connected to missing libs and through me back to the prompt. Second time chose manual install, everything seemed to go normally, rebooted as per installation instructions and had a kernel panic - could not mount root partition. Has anyone else had any problems? I have had no problems at all with all the previous versions up to 7.2 using the same PC hardware. This machine has been running 7.2 since it came out.

Athlon 1.2 ECS Mainboard 512M Ram TNT2 Video Card

Any ideas greatly appreciated

Keith Gibbons, Ireland

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