Don't you get 30 or 60 days free support if you buy the distro? This is
an unusual problem that appears to be file system corruption. Mandrake 8
is probably the best distro for a newbie, but it has so many bleeding
edge progs in it that it is not as stable as RedHat or SuSE.
Interactions of newly released modules have an inherent degree of
unpredictability. A friend of mine who is an experienced linux sys
admin reports to me that Mandrake 8, which he runs, has some performance
quirks. Take that on advisement. I tried mand8 for a week and it broke
on me.
I can only make this suggestion: when you install any distro with the
2.4.x kernel, use ext2fs on the boot partition and reiserfs (pronounced
"riser") on everything else. These seems to make for a very stable
combination.
Smitty
"Maureen L. Thomas" wrote:
>
> I cannot figure out why my Mandrake 8.0 system freezes on bootup. I get
> the following messages as it boots.
>
> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0 (3,70)): ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexisting
> file (114711), 0
> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0 (3,70)): ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexisting
> file (114712), 0
> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0 (3,70)): ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexisting
> file (114713), 0
>
> Then a little further down it freezes at Running Linuxconf hooks:
>
> I did a fsck on the partitions and they fixed a few items - no lost and
> found file - and that was about it. But when I rebooted with shutdown -r
> now it frooze in Linux and in Failsafe at the same place with the same
> messages. I have no clue where to go from here. Can someone lead me in
> the right direction. TIA Maureen
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