omniscientist

Hello, I have used linux before but I have decided to try out the Mandrake 10.1 x86-64 edition because, well I have a amd-64 and I wanted to see what happens First off my specs: AMD 64 3200+ processor MSI K8N Neo Platinum nforce3 250gb motherboard with nvidia sata controller Seagate Barracuda S-ATA hard drive Anyway the installation will start, I will choose the language and accept the license, and after accepting the license it will say it found my nvidia sata controller and some other devices, and ask me if I have any more devices...if I click No, it will say "error no device has been found to install mandrake to" and it will loop, asking me again if there are any more devices. If i click Yes it gives me a big list to choose from of what devices may be on there. If I click on any of them it will do the exact same thing as clicking No, however if I click seagate (my hard drive) it will say something different : "Loading module seagate failed, would you like to load it with different parameters?" Doing this pops up a prompt...I dunno what to type tho, there was an example on the prompt of what to type in and it was something like 0x008 irq 7....sooo not too sure what to write... Anyone have any ideas please?

Hello I installed Slackware 10.0 with kernel 2.4.2 (i think?), so seeing that it was still a 2.4.x kernel I decided to upgrade to 2.6.9, so I download the new kernel , compile it and install it. I followed every single step I was supposed to do but then at reboot I get this: Kernel panic - not syncing:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown block (56,2) I'm not quite sure what to do, I ran liloconfig before I rebooted and I installed lilo again, any help would be very much appreciate. I have NTFS Windows XP on another partition on this computer. If there isn't a way to fix this is there a way to reinstall my old kernel? Or am I going to have to format and reinstall the whole distro?

Actually I'm sorry, I provided some incorrect and vague information.... Ok actually what happens after I agree to the license is it says "installating nvidia sata driver" for a couple seconds, and then my printer starts making some sounds ??!?! then it will say what devices it has found and ask if there's any more...the only device I have found that it accepts when I choose more devices is the low level driver for the nvidia sata controller, but it still ends up saying "cannot find any devices to create a file system on and install mandrake...." is my printer screwing it up lol?