Hi Everyone,

I am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 dual boot with Windows XP. It gives me the welcome screen where i can press F1 or ENTER for more options or install, but if i hit enter the screen goes blank and sits there. I have read on various forums that this seems to happen to people who have 1GIG or more of ram, but i want to know if everyone has had experience with this and what their solution was.

If i just remove some of the ram, do the install and put the ram back in will that work? also, i heard people talk about pressing F1 and typing "linux vga=0" to do a textual install. Other people were talking about a need to edit a kernel, or recompile it before you install. I am a big confused about which is the right option, or if this is not really the problem.

If it is the ram though, i wonder why i was able to install dual boot with mandrake just last week at a computer at work which was made by dell and had 1 gig of ram.

Thanks in advance for any help!!

Here are my system specs;

Athlon XP 1900+
1 Gig PC 2700 RAM
Epox 8k5a+ Motherboard
TDK cdr
Geforce 4 ti4200
Many hard drives including a RAID 0 Array on the Highpoint raid controller on my motherboard (that holds the winXP install), Linux will go on an IDE IBM 8.4 gig HD put as primary master

Check this link and try again. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3
This should help.