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1mck:
Well, I hope you heal real fast, so you can get back in the saddle again, so to speak.lol That's if you have the inclination to do so, again.

I have to screw with things, I went and downloaded Mandrake Linux, and I just installed it, and it no worky! I went onto a Mandrake Bulletin Board to ask what I could do to fix it, and since you people are "Linux Gods" I am hoping that I can get double the help, here's what I wrote, and thanks in advance.

Hello,

I am having problems getting Mandrake to load up.

I have allocated 3 gigs for Mandrake, and the rest for my Windoze 98 SE, and I'm pretty sure that I've configured everything right, and before I delve into what is going on, Here is what I have for a computer...I'm sorry for the bad language that will follow;)

Compaq Presario 5360
AMD K6 450mhz with the 3D Now crap thingy
Voodoo 3000 PCI 3D Accelerator/Video card
256 megs of Ram
Ess Solo 1 Sound card
10 gig hard drive

What is happening is it will load up with no problem with the opening screen, but when I press "I" to have the interactive boot up, it ignores that, and then I am taken to black screen, and it has "login:", and even before I get a chance to press anything....the screen goes black, and my monitor shuts down, and my whole computer is locked up to the point that I have to pull the power cord out.

I should point out that I have had problems with Knoppix Rescue OS (It has a totally working Linux OS all on 1 disk...Kool!), and I wasn't able to get it to load, and it would also lock up my computer. I contacted Knoppix about this, and I was instructed to add this line of instructions at the beginning of boot up sequence: knoppix noapic nousb nopcmcia noscsi noagp nodma It worked, and I haven't fiddled with it to figure out what the problem was/is by eliminating each one by one until it locks up again, but I hope that this might help with identifying my problem(s).

Thanks in advance,
1mck

KernelPanic:
What happens if you don't press 'I'. Because I never do when I boot a mandrake machine.

1mck:
It does exactly the same thing. It just....dies, and locks everything up, and an Empty screen. Sort of like life, eh?lol Sorry, had to throw a bit of levity in there;) Any ideas to fix it...the Mandrake Linux, not the levity I mean.:)

1mck

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