1st boot freeze mandrake 9.2
Hi group!
I have sucessfully installed Mandrake 9.2 on the home pc, and managed to convince my wife to let me put it on her work laptop. We formatted last night and re-installed XP home on one half of the disk, then ran the mandrake disks, installing linux on the other half (10 gig each)
The installation goes fine, but then when I reboot to run it for the first time things go wrong. As the system boots up, the progress bar freezes approx 2/3 of the way along. When I restart and press 'esc' for verbose mode, I see all the things I see on my desktop machine - all the devices and services that it starts, then it starts scrolling through lines and lines of text, too fast for me to read in detail. The text takes the following approximate form:
[<cea17814>] ??????????????????????????????????? [supermount]
the "cea17814" is constantly changing, this is just one I managed to read as it flew past. The "supermount" also often says "kernel" and as for the question marks, I can't pause the screen so I'll never know what that says. The longest I have left this screen scrolling past is half an hour....with no progress.
The versa E600 is a pentium4 1.9GHZ mobile with 256M RAM. The graphics card is an ATI raedon 340M (as recognized in Windoze). This is the only thing I can think of that would trip the computer up. On the final options screen, the X server is not configured like it was with my desktop. I go through and give it the following options:
"Flatpanel 1024X768" and graphics card "raedon" under "ati" - it had no option for the raedon 340M or anything else closer. Could this be the problem, and is it possible to finish setup with out configuring the X server?
Has this happened to anyone else?
I also tried with the redhat 9 without success, freezing even before the display of the GUI installation setup…
Any / all suggestions greatly appreciated.
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