mandriva 2006 wont start

[dyniek]

Hi, i'm completly new to mandriva, and linux generally. But this is not the problem. I've installed mandriva on a separate HDD but the os won't start by ane means. When i start it by selecting "linux" it stops working, and when i select other options there's a crc error when "decompressing linux". What might be wrong? Same thing is with ubuntu 5.10. HDD is a slave on second IDE, is this the source of my problem? By the way, I can't change the P'n'P settins in my BIOS, but the sys install's normally, without any errors. I'm looking foreward for your assistance and thank you in advance!!

[Kojak]

Can you disable Plug&Play in your BIOS?

Edit: WTF???.. The reply button went weird. Moe, can you clean this mess up please? Sorry for the inconveniances. Not my fault.

[Kojak]

Can you disable Plug&Play in your BIOS?

[dyniek]

No i have no P'n'P tag in my BIOS. It's America Maegatrends.

[dyniek]

maybe there is some other disribution whitch works without disabling P'n'P??
I really want to learn using linux, i'm quite desperarte about it

[fingal]

This could be a bootloader problem. After all, it's likely that the distro would boot normally, so I think your bootloader is having trouble finding the Linux kernel.

Sometimes there are strange IDE channel problems which are very hard to trace. Windows seems to tolerate these, but Linux won't. You may want to think very carefully about how you have your hdds set up because it could be a factor.

For example, I only have one hdd set up as a primary master. One drive, one channel. My dvd and CD-RW is on IDE 2 ... One as secondary master, the other as secondary slave. If I were to add a second hdd it would be a primary slave. Some setups differ and this can cause terrible headaches. This is where building your own box is useful!