Problems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

Tue Apr 19 08:54:34 EDT 2005

I actually bought a copy of Mandriva 10.1.  Should be here in the next few
days, if it is not in my mailbox already :)

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From: nflug at nflug.org

Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:09:14 AM

To: nflug at nflug.org

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

I'm also new to Linux and I brought the "linux for Dummies" book and it came
with FC3, Mandrake 10.1, Suse, Xandros, and Knoppix. Oh, and Linspire.  I
burned all the images and I'm able to experiment with what ever version of
linux I want.  It was a great buy at $30.  Give it a try.  

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

Thanks for the help. I was able to install 10.1 easily. However it did not
come with KDE. Any suggestions are how to get it and what version? Being new
to Linux this is all very foreign to me. Your assistance and guidance is
greatly appreciated. 

Joe 

Joseph V. McNamara, CCNA, CCAI

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SubjectProblems Installing Mandrake 8.0 on Intel P4 mother board

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

Erie 1 BOCES

Potter Career & Technical Center

Phone: 716-821-7331

Fax: 716-821-7336

jmcnamara at e1b.org

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