Blank screen after trying to load 9.2
After installing Mandrake 9.2 with the following settings:
An eMachine 366 running on Win98 (sort of old, but not older than '98), 64MB ram, having two drives one windows (3.2GB tot.) and another empty drive (42GB). None of the install has to do with the windows drive, and i might add that windows will load fine but mandrake will not.
Partitions (out of 42GB)-
10GB to /
~1GB to swap
and about 20GB to the /home (can't remember exactly)
Graphical Interface-
monitor- 1024x768 @ 70Hz
ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC
XFree 4.3
Resolution- 800x600 at 24 bits
Bootloader-
First sector of drive (MBR), LILO at /dev/hda (hda is the first drive i *think*, hdd is the second i know for sure)
The installation went fine and i used most of the default settings that automatically showed up when installing. I searched for updates after installation and i'm pretty sure it found at least one, and downloaded them. That went fine, but when i came to the remove install disk (CD) and reboot by pressing the reboot button, it froze up. I waited for a while and then noticed that the mouse cursor wouldn't move. I held the power button for ~10 seconds and preceeded to re-boot my computer w/o the install disk. The BIOS loaded no differently than it normally would, and the LILO loaded perfectly. The only problem is that after choosing what OS i wanted to load (either linux, linux-nonfb, failsafe or windows, i chose linux) the status bar below the window preceeded to complete istelf (the white bar went from left to right ). After that, the screen just goes blank, the computer shows no sign of activity and i am very mad (or is it my fault for choosing open software :P ). This is the second time i've installed 9.2 and with no avail i am getting very curious to why my linux wont load. Does it have to do with how i configured my partitions, bootloader?
Thanks in advance,
Max
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