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I had the same problem as the first poster. I used the same dvd to install mandrake on two different systems. On both systems the install went perfect. The first system booted right up, and right into kde. The other system however would not show a login prompt or load into kde.
Let me say that I've been using linux for about 2 days now. Yesterday I spent 8 hours trying to solve this and other problems with the install on my second system. Fortunatly I was able to clear them all up. Some of the problems where of my own creation. Like giving /home most of the drive, I'll never make that mistake again. The three partitions that Mandrake sets up on a 40gig hard drive via the wizard are a joke. Just try and install Unreal 2k4 with that....
Anyway I learned alot very quick. And even more I found others that have had the same problem. I know there are at least two or three other posts about this same problem on this forum, and who knows how many else where. Nearly all of the answers that I have seen point to XFree86 and its config. This is not the problem for a fresh install.
On my way to finding the correct answer I got a partial one which lead me to this fix.
Boot up into linux.
First get to the terminal via Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Log into your account, then log into root. You will need to know the password for root.
After you have logged into root type:
service dm stop
Once the dm has been stopped type:
startx
too bring up the gui. Once the gui loads you will get a warning about still being logged in as root continue, do not log out yet.
Once the gui has loaded navigate to /etc/sysconfig
In here you are looking for a file called firstboot. Open it.
Once it is open replace the yes with no.
Now log out and restart the computer your done, and the problem should have gone away.
Last edited by ranmas; 12-24-2004 at 11:01 PM.
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