MDK 10 CD Won't Boot?


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ive seen that a few other people have had the same problem.

I have tried booting from CD2, and that doesnt work either. Anyone else got any suggestions on how to boot install MDK 10?

-pete

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yes it is set to boot from CD (i am not a newbie by any means)

ive tried booting frmo the second CD, it doesnt work. but ill give it another go.

::EDIT::

second CD wont boot either

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I am wondering if they have not setup the ISOs correctly as I have also had problems booting with MDK 10. CD2 seems to work most of the time for me tho. :/

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yes .. i got that prob too on a p4 system but on this athlox XP system it bootoed and installed properly .... but guess what .. it fu**ed my xp which was on it before .. it shows in LILO but when selected .. the xp boot-splash screen comes and sys reboots .

i am totally fu**ed now.

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I couldn?t boot from CD-ROM neither, so I had to make a boot floppy. Also, the installation is a lot slower than I expected, even for a Pentium III! And for some of the programs, I heard that a fourth CD is necessary, yet only three of them are on the mirror sites besides MandrakeMove, whatever it does. But so far, with the exception of the NVidia drivers (not tested yet) and the camera, it works reasonably well. Just make sure you turn off Shorewall if you want to use the Net.

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yes .. i got that prob  too on a p4 system but on this athlox XP system it bootoed and installed properly ....  but guess what .. it fu**ed my xp which was on it before .. it shows in LILO but when selected .. the xp boot-splash screen comes and sys reboots .

i am totally fu**ed now.

my bad , i had wrongly pushed the data0cable on windows HDD :blush: so it wasnt booting ... and now both windows and linux running smooteh.. :cool:

the installation was breezing fast for me .. took some 12 mins .. 1.9GB installation.

Mah Rig:-

Athlon XP 1800+ on Asus Nforce 266VM

onbard agp+audio

512 MB DDR ram (2100)

Seagate barracuda 80GB + samsung 60 GB

Sony 48X CDRW.

and the usuals.

this version 10 is looking very cool with 2.6.* + KDE 3.2 :whistle: was worth all the trouble.

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MDK 10 is wacky, it booted from the CD 2 then immediately asked for CD1, and after installing, it wouldn't boot windows, and completely fubared the MBR ... fun stuff. Luckily I was reformatting anyway, and just putting it on for a test run.

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While we are on the whole boot thing, I installed it fine and everything but I don't like to start with an option for lilo so I leave my pata hd off the boot list (its the one with lilo) and just start up normally in xp on my sata drive, what would be the way to make it so I can boot to the pata drive with just a floppy?

There are things about a boot floppy but that seems for the install, or is that what I need even though it's already installed..?

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I am getting the following message:

Mandrake Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an hardware error while reading the data.

I got that message on two computers. Then it goes on to give me a reboot message.

I have burned the image twice with two different burning programs.

I may try to redownload the first iso.. but somehow I think that it won't fix this issue.

:D

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I had that problem also. Just try again installing on the computer you want it on until it works. It should work eventually. I would stop after about the 4th try and wait for the update of M10. And I never had any problem with the cd being detected. I guess I am just lucky.

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