Linux and Emachines

[ObsidianPoet]

Hi there

I am having difficulty in instaling linux Red Hat 9.0 and mandrake 9.0. I have an E-Machine M5305 Laptop. IEverything goes fine until the first boot up. Then there is a whole list of errors that I cant read because it goes way to fast and goes on unitl I reboot. When I robbot it does the same thing. argggg. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks

Obsidian Poet

[hlrguy]

Hmmm, without more to go on (and since the install seemed to work out fine), my guess is that it is trying to start X (The GUI system), it fails, then retries. Even a snippet or a few keywords that come up would help us. During the install, did you test it when you configured your X session (i.e. card detected, selecting driver, selecting 1024X768 or whatever?).

See if you can see the message 'No Screens Found' or something like that recurring.

hlrguy

[ObsidianPoet]

Okay, I tried yet another clean install and I noticed that during the bootup, it stopped for a little while on

loading sound module (Trident)

and then the repeating code popped up. I let it run for about 5 minutes and it finally stopped on this

EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,5)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write : IO failure
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,5)) in ext3_orphan_add: IO Failure
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,5)) : ext3_get_inode_ioc: unable to read block - inode=74178 block=163847
init: id "4" respawning too fast: diabled for 5 minutes


Hope this helps

Obsidian Poet

[hlrguy]

http://home.nc.rr.com/mitchel/Linux-on-the-eMachines-M5305.html

Useful information...

Mostly, I am replying to bump this up again for you. I don't know what to make of the ext3 failure. Googling around, it usually indicates a bad HD or a thoroughly confused one.

hlrguy

[JohnT]

Gonna take a stab at this, from what I see, but go into your bios and try disabling DMA and check the results.