Can't get into Mandriva 2007 Spring
OK, so I installed Mandriva 2007 Spring, and for some odd reason I can't get into it. During installation it recognized all my hardware, even my sound card. Whenever I go to boot it up, I go into the verbose mode and watch everything as it's being loaded, and the only thing that fails is my sound card. everything else starts up just fine, and I even see the mouse cursor for a few seconds before it just stops. hard drive is still being accessed for about 30 seconds, then nothing happens.
My partitions are set up as follows: 4GB Swap 30GB / Ext3 56GB /boot Ext3 Anybody got an idea? I really want to get back into Linux and learn everything, but this is kinda discouraging. Thanks! |
If you're seeing a mouse cursor, the system is pretty much completing a boot but the X server/graphical system is probably misconfigured and hanging on startup. For starters on troubleshooting, please post your graphics card.
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Right, sorry about that. It's a 7800GT.
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Works fine with 7600GST as it should with most cards now that Mandriva is using the framebuffer by default.
If you suspect that the soundcard is in any way involved, just disable or remove it to see where that gets you. On a side note, is your boot partition really 56GB? Even 100MB is lots of space for a boot partition. 4GB swap is way too much as well in most situations. |
How would you suggest I setup my partitions? This is a new install so redoing everything isn't a big deal.
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swap 2GB
/boot 100MB ext2 or ext3 / 8 to 12 GB xfs /var 2 to 3 GB xfs /home the remaining space ext3 or, if you intend to save larger files, xfs |
Thanks! For some reason i didn't get the email notify of your post... oh well.
After reading the reviews for Mandrake 2007, I've decided that it's not worth it. Can someone recommend a distro? As I understand it, Ubuntu is generally pretty good for noobs like myself. |
Yes, Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS. I don't know what you read about Mandriva that made you reconsider, it's far from bad. Anyway, you can use the scheme I outlined in my previous post with any distro.
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The reviews I read are over in the Distro Reviews Section of the Main Menu.
Thanks for all your advice, I'll give Ubuntu a quick spin. |
Well, here I am using the Kubuntu 7.04 Live DVD. It's installing right now, but the oddest thing is that I have to start the dang DVD in graphical safe mode. Hopefully once it's installed properly, it'll work properly.
EDIT: OK, so the install finished, and I was able to boot without a problem. Then I tried to change my graphics settings, and everyhting went downhill. It went to a gray screen with just the mouse cursor, and no way to get out of it, so I restarted. After Kubuntu finished loading, all I had was a black screen with the cursor. The graphics settings I tried to change were my monitor to one that can handle my normal resolution, and changing the GPU driver from vesa to Nvidia 7 Series. |
the driver needs to be "nv". NV is the open source driver, which supports 2D only. You should install the nvidia driver if you need 3D.
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You can choose to boot in safe mode from Grub.. which will go to a CLI... and run... Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto IGF |
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Thanks for your help! It worked great! |
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