Hi everyone,

Trying to install Mandrake 10 official. After booting from the CD, I get the "F1 for more options, ENTER to install" screen. I press enter, some text scrolls by, and then a black screen comes up with the "ALT+F1 for here, ALT+F3 to see the logs, ALT+F4 for kernel msg" blue bar at the bottom. And this is the screen where the installation hangs. I waited about five minutes, and it still sat here. ALT+F1/F3/F4 don't work, and I have to reset the computer.

The CD's work fine on another computer, so they are burned correctly. I tried booting from CD2 so it could ask me for CD1, but I get a "choose installation method" popup, and no keys work (up/down/left/right/enter/esc). I tried all of this in both my CD-RW drive and my DVD+-RW drive. Neither way works.

thanks to anyone for their input!

Are you using a usb mouse or keyboard?

I'm using a USB keyboard... and possibly a USB mouse... could this be the problem?

Looks like setup isn't recognising your usb devices properly. See if you can get your hand on a ps2/serial mouse and keyboard and try again.

Awesome, i got mandrake to work using a PS2 adapter for the mouse and a PS2 keyboard. however, I still want to use my USB keyboard with mandrake but it still won't boot with it plugged in... the PS2 adapter doesn't work on the keyboard, either... any ideas?

Thanks!
zakk