Kevin,
Awhile back i tried to make 2 installations of Mandrake. One installation was
already on one drive, and i tried installing the second onto several
combinations of the two drives (several times). Every time, at the part of the
installation where it wants to format the partitions, it would want to format
the swap partition for the first installation too, even though i told it i
wanted another swap partition. Every time it would install fine and then it
would fail to boot, going into a kernel panic; or else it would boot up but
segfault & coredump every time i tried to run almost anything.
Eventually the light dawned and i unplugged the first drive and plugged in some
other drive that didn't have any linux installed on it (i think it was a data
drive, actually) to give it the same drive topology. Then it installed fine. I
made it boot off floppy. Then i swapped the drives back, and it worked
perfectly. The problem seemed to occur during the installation, and i bet
anything it had to do with that original swap partition.
So don't do it, is my advice, and if you must then try to do seomthing along
the lines of what i did. I suspect that it will work (right, why wouldn't it?).
Good luck,
j
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kevin Tambascio wrote:
> > I have tried three times to install 8.0 on a box that
> > previously ran 7.2. The only difference is that I am
> > installing to the second IDE harddrive instead of the
> > first, nothing else has changed. Here is what my system
> > looks like:
> >
> > Dell PII-450
> > 20 GB Quantum HD
> > RIVA 128 TNT Video Card
> > 128 MB Ram
> > Linksys 10/100 eth card
> >
> > The install works fine, and I set up linux partitions like
> > this:
> >
> > / - ~12 GB, reiserFS
> > /home - ~8 GB, resiser
> > /swap - 400 MB, swap
> >
> > When I reboot for the first time, and anytime after that,
> > during the Aurora bootup, it says "Starting X Font Server",
> > and it just hangs for ever. I let it sit there for 10 or
> > 15 minutes, and still nothing, no disk activity or
> > anything. I picked X 4.0.3 to use as my X system.
> >
> > So I formatted everything again, and selected X 3.3.6 this
> > time. Picked the same basic options. Got the exact same
> > result. Note, the computer is not frozen, because I can do
> > a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot, and the system responds.
> >
> > So when it was frozen, I used the Alt+F1-F11 to look at all
> > the different consoles to see what was going on, but there
> > were no messages on the screen about what was causing xfs
> > to not load (yes, I did make sure that xfs was selected in
> > the install, I did a expert install).
> >
> > I also tried to boot up in rescue mode off the CD, and I
> > went into /var to look for any logs, but /var had almost
> > nothing.
> >
> > I reformatted again, and this time unchecked the "boot into
> > graphical mode". I did this, but still got it hanging.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
>
> Kevin....try a seperate ext2 /boot partition.
> --
> Alan
>
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