I don't know if it's an initrd service, hell I don't even know what that is other than it launches at boot.
I can't get anywhere in order to disable it.
I can't boot into single mode,
same error, boot disk or HD
Mandrake 9.0 Bootdisk & HD,
Mandrake 8.2 from HD
all same errors, RH has better description of error though.
Here are the snapshots from my digital camera..
forgive the flash, but it had to be on in order to have the quickest shutter speed to actually get what was on the screen..
Here we see everything booting fine...
http://members.rogers.com/danis/step1.jpg
here we see everything ok, BUT - Unknown bridge - assuming transparent???
http://members.rogers.com/danis/step2a.jpg
here it is again, slightly different, with some PCI cards removed, can't remember which ones...
http://members.rogers.com/danis/step2b.jpg
and here are the crap codes that keep appearing infinitely...
http://members.rogers.com/danis/step3.jpg
I believe those are all the different kinds, just repeating over and over...
Well, any help is appreciated...
I pulled out all my cards one by one cept my Geforce3, and same error, onboard sound disabled, tried disabling onboard USB 2, nothing.
I think it's something that I can't disable.
I can't boot,
I can't boot safe/single, whatever.
What gets me is that it boots fine and initializes everything fine for the setup meaning it has to detect all my devices and such in order to setup them up during install - it's the first boot that kills it.
Tried linux noapic,
apic is off in bios, using pic,
tried without the scsi card
(mind you I didn't reinstall all those times in between swapping cards, I don't think I'd have that much patience).
Any help appreciated, thanks guys...