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limegreenpatato
05-21-2003, 08:30 PM
Hi, i just tried to instal mandrake 9.1 today and of course i got a problem right off the bat.
I hit enter to install linux it starts detecting all my devices, it gets to detecting usb devices and it stops. The error i get is "Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk" Could be a hardware failure or a linux kernel failure.
So i umpluged my crap burner, and mouse and speakers, everything i could and still install. And it still gave me the same msg.
Any ideas how to get past this?
Choozo
05-22-2003, 04:52 PM
Do you have the option to disable USB in BIOS?
At least turn off/disable PnP OS in BIOS.
Cheers :)
Sapient2003
07-20-2003, 10:56 PM
I get the same errors. I disabled everything I could, I even tried different CD roms... Maybe some of the ISOs are flawed.
Did you guys check the md5 checksums before burning the iso image?
dalek
07-21-2003, 04:28 AM
Sounds like a bad CD or problem reading file. Make Sure it's clean. I ran into a problem installing once and it was a piece of dust on the CD. Cleaned it off and off it went. Had to start over of course.
Just a suggestion.
:D :D :D
Sapient2003
07-21-2003, 07:14 AM
I tried to use my old Limunx Mandrake 8.2 installation CD to see if my CD-ROM was thr problem. The installation loaded fine. Yes, the MD5 checksum for all three ISOs matched. I tried three different Linux Mandrake 9.1 installation CDs, and all compain about ramdisk after the USB check. I disabled USB in my BIOS and removed all USB devices. (I doubt it has anything to do with USB anyway). I installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 fine no more than a month ago. I haven't added any new hardware or changed any system settings in the BIOS. The only thing different are the CDs I am using. I am using the latest Nero to burn the ISOs, and it finishes without errors. This is really pissing me off.
mdwatts
07-21-2003, 10:25 AM
At the first install/boot prompt, enter
nousb
and see if that works.
Some Redhat boot and install options that should also work with Mandrake.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ch-bootopts.html