Problems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

[Robert Meyer]

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
> Instructor, Cisco Networking Academy
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> Phone: 716-821-7331
> Fax: 716-821-7336
> jmcnamara at e1b.org
> 
> 


		
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