I have just installed Mandrake 10.1 and have noticed 2 problems I have not been able to get around.

PROBLEMS
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1. When booting Mandrake it always complains that my serial ata drives do not exist and I have to mount them manually all the time. It gives an error like "cannot find special device /dev/sda1"

2. When I press to <ctl> <alt> <f1> to go to a terminal it prints out garbage on my screen. If I boot into runlevel 3 it works fine until I init x or go to runlevel 5.

3. If I just do a reboot the system hangs forever at detecting new hardware sometimes.

Any suggestions on how to fix the above would be appreciated.