Problems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

Fri Apr 15 15:08:05 EDT 2005

I am waiting for the arrival of my Mandriva 10.1 CDs which should be here
hopefully next week :)

-------Original Message-------

From: nflug at nflug.org

Date: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:56:17 PM

To: nflug at nflug.org

Subject: Re: Problems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

Well, my first recommendation is to get a set of mandrake 10.1 or 10.0 disks

8.0 is very old and may have a problem with newer boards with unknown IDE

controllers. The newer versions have better IDE support.

Cheers!

Bob

--- JMcNamara at e1b.org wrote:

> Can anyone help me with my problem?

> 

> I am trying to install mandrake 8.0 on new PC with an Intel D865PERL 

> motherboard and Intel P4 processor. When I load the CD it boots normally 

> to the initial installation screen and I press enter to begin the 

> installation. A DOS type screen comes up with all sorts of information 

> about things be loaded etc. The last line reads "pci_ide: unknown IDE 

> controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, vid=8086, did=24db vfs: cannot open 

> root device "" or 08:05. please append a correct " root=" boot option 

> kernal panic :vfs:unable to mount root fs on 08:05" .

> 

> Has anyone come across this error before or do you have any ideas?

> 

> I have already contacted Intel... they were little help only giving me 

> links to drivers and stating that Linux is not a supported platform.

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> Joe

> 

> 

> Joseph V. McNamara, CCNA, CCAI

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> jmcnamara at e1b.org

> 

> 

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