[lug] Unable to cleanly reboot

[Michael Deck]

On Thursday 18 October 2001 02:24 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael Deck wrote:
> > > > I've been trying to replace Mandrake 7.2 with KRUD 9-01 for the past
> > > > 3 days. First, I couldn get initrd.img to boot and the hardware was
> > > > suspected. So I put a newer CDROM drive in and tried again.
> > > >
> > > > Booting worked, but I was getting sporadic failures to find rpm files
> > > > during the actual install. Each of these install attempts left the
> > > > system in a more or less unusable state. I did go back and re-install
> > > > Mandrake from CD successfully but it has many older RPMs and
> > > > (unfortunately) at some point I trashed /usr so my various patches
> > > > and updates were lost. Sigh.
> > > >
> > > > This morning I figured out how to do a hard-disk based install and
> > > > tried that. This particular box can't successfully copy the CD's but
> > > > I was able to us another Linux box to copy them into ISO images and
> > > > then upload them to the target system. Voila!, I thought, and I (once
> > > > again) commenced the KRUD installation. Text mode, but it got done.
>
> Grasping at straws here, but Mandrake and KRUD are basically RedHat
> derivatives.  I'd guess that the installation process would be pretty much
> the same for each of these.  If you can install Mandrake from the CDROM
> drive and not KRUD, and since you seem to be having problems reading the
> KRUD CD I'm wondering if you might have a defective KRUD CD?

It seems to happen with 8-1-01 as well as 9-1-01. Sean thought that KRUD's 
use of 700MB media might cause low-end hardware to spit.