Boot loader help

gadabout · Sep 29, 2004, 10:17 AM

Alright I will be the first to admit that I am an absolute newbie at linux. Just pretend I know anything...lol. Well, no not that bad.

Anyway, here's my prob:

I have installed Mandrake 10.1 which I downloaded from their site. The installation is on a 30GB HD, partitioned into 2 15GB drives. The installation is on the second partition. I have a total of 4 HD's, 80, 30, 40, 60, system sees them in that order. Now, the installer loads fine and everything is detected just great, but when it come time to load a boot loader everything goes to crap. I receive this message "mkinitrd failed -v-f /boot/inird-img --ifneeded 2.6.8.1-10mdk". Now I thought that it might be that my HD's are on a ITE8212 RAID controller, but acting as a normal ATA interface. So, I tried to make a bootable floppy but again the same thing happens. I have tried to run the rescue utility off the boot CD but it comes up with a ton of errors. So thus it can't "fix" it. Any ideas on what I could possible do? Again, I don’t need to have a boot load on my HD, it would be just perfectly fine on a floppy.

I’ve searched many hours on trying to get anything working, but I just confused myself more. I thought this site/forum would be my best choice to post something as such.

Any help would be much appreciated.

UberLord · Sep 29, 2004, 04:09 PM

That looks like an error regarding the making of a custom initrc file autmated by the mandrake install process - I can't help as I know nothing of this.

I would recommend asking at Mandrake user support forums
http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=7

Sep 29, 2004, 10:17 AM	#1
gadabout Im Zaphod Beeblebrox Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 89 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Boot loader help Alright I will be the first to admit that I am an absolute newbie at linux. Just pretend I know anything...lol. Well, no not that bad. Anyway, here's my prob: I have installed Mandrake 10.1 which I downloaded from their site. The installation is on a 30GB HD, partitioned into 2 15GB drives. The installation is on the second partition. I have a total of 4 HD's, 80, 30, 40, 60, system sees them in that order. Now, the installer loads fine and everything is detected just great, but when it come time to load a boot loader everything goes to crap. I receive this message "mkinitrd failed -v-f /boot/inird-img --ifneeded 2.6.8.1-10mdk". Now I thought that it might be that my HD's are on a ITE8212 RAID controller, but acting as a normal ATA interface. So, I tried to make a bootable floppy but again the same thing happens. I have tried to run the rescue utility off the boot CD but it comes up with a ton of errors. So thus it can't "fix" it. Any ideas on what I could possible do? Again, I don’t need to have a boot load on my HD, it would be just perfectly fine on a floppy. I’ve searched many hours on trying to get anything working, but I just confused myself more. I thought this site/forum would be my best choice to post something as such. Any help would be much appreciated. __________________ AMD64 X2 3800+ 2GB DDR400 Dual Channel 250GB SATA Seagate \| 500GB SATA WD (WAS an external HD unit, until closure failed) DVD+/-RW Dual Layer w/ Lightscribe \| Plextor DVD+/-RW Dual Layer ATI MSI RX3870 OC Edition PCI-E 2.0 Windows 7 64bit

Sep 29, 2004, 04:09 PM	#2
UberLord A Legend in Underwear Join Date: May 2002 Location: Unknown Posts: 5,255 Rep Power: 0	That looks like an error regarding the making of a custom initrc file autmated by the mandrake install process - I can't help as I know nothing of this. I would recommend asking at Mandrake user support forums http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=7 __________________ Gentoo Linux - Developer (baselayout) Read my blog "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen Roberts