Have seen on some forums trouble with CD1 on Mandrake 10 install. I had the very same trouble... My CD will boot anything else that I have tried, EXCEPT the mandrake CD1.

The Mandrake errata has a simple solution. It goes something like, "if CD1 will not work, use CD2." Ahem. Well, sure. If I HAD a CD2.

Simple solution is roughly as follows (it just proves once agian how easy Linux is for anyone to install):

Boot Windows and run Partition Magic to make some room for Linux (I made about 20 GB of unpartitioned space to play with).

Download all 3 iso images. Save them somewhere. I used a Windows partition to save them at first.

Check MD5 sigs. Everything OK? Cool then burn them onto good media at 8X.

Boot CD1. What? CD1 will not boot? Then make a boot floppy and try that. This is only a theory, as I have no working floppy drive. The air in this part of China is so bad that a lot of floppies die very young. So...

Copy the boot.iso image from the images directory on CD1 to your hard drive, then use it to burn a boot CD.

[edited: at this point, you can use the CD's you just made for beer coasters. They keep the rings off the tables quite nicely]

Download Knoppix live CD iso. Burn it to CD.

Boot Knoppix.

Make a Linux partition just big enough to hold the Mandrake iso images.

Format the partition and put the iso images in. I put each one in a different directory (/iso-1, /iso-2, /iso-3).

Boot again using the boot CD you created above from the boot.iso image, then direct install to the CD1 image. NOTE: Don't delete the linux partition with the iso images when you partition for install!

Do a limited install (you can only install from the first CD this way, so far as I know, but it is really faster like this in the long run).

Boot into Mandrake 10 and set your iso images to mount using something like this in fstab:

/dev/hda4 /mnt/hd ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/hd/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso /mnt/iso-1 iso9660 ro,loop,auto 0 0
/mnt/hd/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD2.i586.iso /mnt/iso-2 iso9660 ro,loop,auto 0 0
/mnt/hd/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD3.i586.iso /mnt/iso-3 iso9660 ro,loop,auto 0 0

Point Software Media Manager to the iso directories, then use the package manager to install everything that you missed by doing a limited install.

Mandrake is so simple and easy to use.

For sure I will tell any first-timer to give it a go.

Seriously, it is worth the trouble, and Mandrake will get it sorted out in their own sweet fucking time.

Went through a lot of changes to get this one installed, but it sure is slick once you get it working!

Why exactly are you using Mandrake 10? Are you testing it out?

I ask because it's still in a pre-release form... not meant for everyday activity. You should install Mandrake 9.2 if you want a stable version.

Why am I using 10? I just got bored...

It IS cool...

Why not just burn all three install cd's? You used up a cd making a boot cd anyway.

By the way, now that you have Mandrake 10 Community installed, you might want to burn a rescue cd.

The command is 'mkrescue --iso'
This will write a rescue.iso file (about 4MB) that you can burn to cd. It also contains a couple dianostic programs to help suggest up lilo boot options, as well as being a boot cd.

I did burn all 3 CD's. Since I could not boot CD1, CD2 and CD3 were not that useful for install... Hard Disk space is no problem, so having the iso's mounted and waiting should I need them is sort of handy. Package dependencies get sorted out right away.

Thank you for your suggestion about the rescue CD. It makes life a little better every time I find out one more useful little trick. Less work, better results, more beer.

I really do have to say that I am very impressed with what Mandrake has done in 10. It looks and works like a champ. Good menu layout, IMHO. All in all, very sweet.

Hello folks,

I have tried Mdk10, and in my experience it is bug-loaded.
After a reboot the filesystem of my root-directory appeared to be corrupted.
I could not repair it, so I saved my data, and reinstalled 9.2.
At first I ran my appz with the old kernel, and almost everything crashed.
So, I activated the new 2.6.3-4 kernel, and after a while my filesystem crashed. But I could get it running again in secure mode. This enabled me to save some unsaved data.

I also saved the boot.log, and there I saw the warning message concerning the "check" during startup: not supported. I guess that this might be the reason of the crash.
Are there other users who have had a similar problem?

All I can say is: wait a few months before upgrading to Mdk10. Then it should have been improved a bit.

Schmurff

Several people have stated that they couldn't boot up with disk1. The solution is to boot up with disk2 and then switch disks.

Yes. As stated in this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=159330

Hello I have been seeing that folks have issues with booting from the mandrake CD1 but my thing is CD 1 works and then I can get any of the remaining CDs to work..
They keep getting SPAT out... Any ideas?
I have reburned and reburnt so many cds, I also checked the md5sum and the data seems fine but it wont work.
thxs for the help.