Problems booting Mandrake 10 beta after installation

[Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo]

J Friedman wrote :

> I've never used Mandrake, but normally when you get this kind
of mess immediately after the install it suggests that either
the install media was bad, and the installation didn't complete,
or you have unsupported hardware. You can try passing 
init=/bin/bash and see if that gets you anywhere, but quite 
honestly, i'd suggest doing the install again to see if 
things improve at all.  Its possible that the updated 
partition table confused the installer.

I verified that the installation cds were ok. In respect to unsuported
hardware I think not... But I'll check it...

I did the install again... and the same problem is happening exactly as
before...

Rigth now I'm trying to figure it out how to pass init=/bin/bash
to the the kernel... or something like init=/dev/hda5 or somthing like
that...

I think that the boot process is confused in some way for the fact that I
changed the partition table...

I boot a kanoppix CD and I see all my partitions and they seem to be ok,
including the partition where Mandrake 10 was installed so I suppose that
the init process is in some way trying to boot from a non-existing
partitoin... but I'm just guessing.

Thanks for your response... I'll try what you suggest


Chucho!