Alan Secker wrote:
> I have been trying to get Mandriva One to boot on an EEE PC901.

> All the attempts to run live distros was from a USB2.0 CD Drive. It gets so
> far scrolling its log up the screen and then ends with these lines:
>
> rmdir: '/intrd/live/union' : No such file or directory
> /bin/sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to /initrd/live


http://lordikc.free.fr/wordpress/?p=63#comments

There has been some discussion of 2008.1 on the EEE at the Experts
Forum, Mandriva website. I get these things e-mail and delete them,
so no URL, but Google or search on the Mandriva website should
turn up something.

Cheers!

jim b.

--
UNIX is not user unfriendly; it merely
expects users to be computer-friendly.

Jim Beard wrote:

> Alan Secker wrote:
>> I have been trying to get Mandriva One to boot on an EEE PC901.
>
>> All the attempts to run live distros was from a USB2.0 CD Drive. It gets
>> so far scrolling its log up the screen and then ends with these lines:
>>
>> rmdir: '/intrd/live/union' : No such file or directory
>> /bin/sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to /initrd/live
>
>
> http://lordikc.free.fr/wordpress/?p=63#comments
>
> There has been some discussion of 2008.1 on the EEE at the Experts
> Forum, Mandriva website. I get these things e-mail and delete them,
> so no URL, but Google or search on the Mandriva website should
> turn up something.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>

Thank you. I would never found that! Regards, Alan

Alan Secker wrote:

> I have been trying to get Mandriva One to boot on an EEE PC901.
> I first tried a copy taken from a Linux Format cover disk on September
> 2008 issue LXFDVD109. That crashed part way through. I later downloaded a
> copy from:
> http://mandriva.dcc.fc.up.pt/official/iso/2008.1/
>
> The version copied was:
>
> mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso
>
> That too crashed. The screen text could not be saved but I copied a much
> as I could and reproduce it below. Yet I was able to boot from it n my
> desktop and even got Kaffiene to display TV pictures within a few seconds.
>
> I then tried a copy from an earlier cover disc LXFDVD107 dated July 2008.
> That did come up but could connect by neither wired nor wireless Ethernet!
>
> I have since tried Fedora 9, Suse 11, Ubuntu 8.04 and Sabayon 3.5 Pod. All
> came up but could not handle wired or wireless connections.
>
> Linux Format claim that Mandriva One works straight out of the box, so I
> am very disappointed. I shall be doing some heavy travelling in a few
> months time and this seemed the ideal machine / os combination for the
> job. Here is the last part of the boot up log:
>
> All the attempts to run live distros was from a USB2.0 CD Drive. It gets
> so far scrolling its log up the screen and then ends with these lines:
>
> rmdir: '/intrd/live/union' : No such file or directory
> /bin/sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to /initrd/live
> mount: mounting bin on /live/bin failed
> rmdir: 'bin' : Directory not empty
> mount: mounting bin on /live/etc failed
> rmdir: 'dev' : Directory not empty
> mount: mounting bin on /live/dev failed
> rmdir: 'etc' : Directory not empty
> mount: mounting bin on /live/lib failed
> rmdir: 'lib' : Directory not empty
> mount: mounting linuxrc on /live/linuxrc failed
> rmdir: 'linuxrc' : Not a directory
> mount: mounting proc on /live/proc failed
> rmdir: 'live' : Directory not empty
> mount: mounting proc on /live/proc failed
> mount: mounting sys on /live/sys failed
> mount: mounting tmp on /live/tmp failed
> rmdir: 'tmp' : Directory not empty
> mount: mounting usr on /live/usr failed
> rmdir: 'usr' : Directory not empty
> rmdir: '/intrd/live' : No such file or directory
> mount: mounting /var/lib/rpm on /var/rpm/real failed
> mount: mounting /tmp/rpm/fake on /var/lib/rpm failed
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
> init started: BusyBox v1.6.1 (2008-03-25 01:53:27 UTC) multi-call binary
> Cannot run '/etc/init.d/rcS' : No such file or directory
>
> Please press Enter to activate this console. sr0: scsi3=mmc drive 48xx48x
> writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Ubiform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
>
> I would be delighted if a solution could be found.


First, try to say hello.
Second, check MD5 sums.

F8BOE wrote:

> Alan Secker wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to get Mandriva One to boot on an EEE PC901.
>> I first tried a copy taken from a Linux Format cover disk on September
>> 2008 issue LXFDVD109. That crashed part way through. I later downloaded a
>> copy from:
>> http://mandriva.dcc.fc.up.pt/official/iso/2008.1/
>>
>> The version copied was:
>>
>> mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso
>>
>> That too crashed. The screen text could not be saved but I copied a much
>> as I could and reproduce it below. Yet I was able to boot from it n my
>> desktop and even got Kaffiene to display TV pictures within a few
>> seconds.
>>
>> I then tried a copy from an earlier cover disc LXFDVD107 dated July 2008.
>> That did come up but could connect by neither wired nor wireless
>> Ethernet!
>>
>> I have since tried Fedora 9, Suse 11, Ubuntu 8.04 and Sabayon 3.5 Pod.
>> All came up but could not handle wired or wireless connections.
>>
>> Linux Format claim that Mandriva One works straight out of the box, so I
>> am very disappointed. I shall be doing some heavy travelling in a few
>> months time and this seemed the ideal machine / os combination for the
>> job. Here is the last part of the boot up log:
>>
>> All the attempts to run live distros was from a USB2.0 CD Drive. It gets
>> so far scrolling its log up the screen and then ends with these lines:
>>
>> rmdir: '/intrd/live/union' : No such file or directory
>> /bin/sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to /initrd/live
>> mount: mounting bin on /live/bin failed
>> rmdir: 'bin' : Directory not empty
>> mount: mounting bin on /live/etc failed
>> rmdir: 'dev' : Directory not empty
>> mount: mounting bin on /live/dev failed
>> rmdir: 'etc' : Directory not empty
>> mount: mounting bin on /live/lib failed
>> rmdir: 'lib' : Directory not empty
>> mount: mounting linuxrc on /live/linuxrc failed
>> rmdir: 'linuxrc' : Not a directory
>> mount: mounting proc on /live/proc failed
>> rmdir: 'live' : Directory not empty
>> mount: mounting proc on /live/proc failed
>> mount: mounting sys on /live/sys failed
>> mount: mounting tmp on /live/tmp failed
>> rmdir: 'tmp' : Directory not empty
>> mount: mounting usr on /live/usr failed
>> rmdir: 'usr' : Directory not empty
>> rmdir: '/intrd/live' : No such file or directory
>> mount: mounting /var/lib/rpm on /var/rpm/real failed
>> mount: mounting /tmp/rpm/fake on /var/lib/rpm failed
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
>> init started: BusyBox v1.6.1 (2008-03-25 01:53:27 UTC) multi-call binary
>> Cannot run '/etc/init.d/rcS' : No such file or directory
>>
>> Please press Enter to activate this console. sr0: scsi3=mmc drive 48xx48x
>> writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>> Ubiform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
>>
>> I would be delighted if a solution could be found.
>
>
> First, try to say hello.
> Second, check MD5 sums.

a) Hello
b) I visually checked the MD5 checksum before burning.

I have since tried Mandriva 2009 beta 2. That gives a different set of
messages. Because there are no external links, I wasn't able to save them
although I might be able to save the log to a pen drive if I can
successfully mount it! I had trouble yesterday.

I have the feeling that the problem may be memory related as a correspondent
on thee EEE User blog claim to have installed beta 2 albeit with the usual
bugs of a beta release.

Regards, Alan

Jim Beard wrote:

> Alan Secker wrote:
>> I have been trying to get Mandriva One to boot on an EEE PC901.
>
>> All the attempts to run live distros was from a USB2.0 CD Drive. It gets
>> so far scrolling its log up the screen and then ends with these lines:
>>
>> rmdir: '/intrd/live/union' : No such file or directory
>> /bin/sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to /initrd/live
>
>
> http://lordikc.free.fr/wordpress/?p=63#comments
>
> There has been some discussion of 2008.1 on the EEE at the Experts
> Forum, Mandriva website. I get these things e-mail and delete them,
> so no URL, but Google or search on the Mandriva website should
> turn up something.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>

I didn't find anything useful about 2008.1 on Google but I did find that I
could download 2009 beta 2. I did and it came up on the EEE but of course
this and that didn't work. My main concern was wireless access but as I am
switching my Wi-Fi module from a RaLink one to a Gigabyte Atheros-chipped
one it may even be O.K. KDE 4.1 looks really polished on it. I think this
release will be very popular when it comes out.

Alan