[TriLUG] Help with Mandrake 2005 LE

[Douglas Ward]

Is this a laptop or a desktop? Have you run any earlier versions of Mandrake 
or other distributions successfully? It's been my experience that this 
usually happens when some hardware doesn't care for linux. This may be hard 
with a laptop but if it's a desktop try removing a peripheral or two. I'd 
start with the sound card. That's what seems to always trip me up at work.

On 8/1/05, Walt Novinger <wbnovinger at nc.rr.com> wrote: 
> 
> Douglas,
> 
> I don't get as far as being able to select interactive mode...This happens
> very early in the boot process where it's still probing hardware and the
> like. Any other ideas? :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Walt
> On Monday 01 August 2005 10:24 pm, Douglas Ward wrote:
> > I had that problem once with Mandrake 10.2. Try booting the computer in
> > interactive mode. It will prompt you for each service. You should be 
> able
> > to figure out which service is hanging on boot. This should give you 
> more
> > things to google on for finding a resolution. I was able to get by the
> > hanging service by saying no when prompted to start it. It's a pain long
> > term but short term it will get you past the problem.
> >
> > On 8/1/05, Walt Novinger <wbnovinger at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > > I just installed a copy of Mandrake 2005 LE on one of my machines and 
> all
> > > went
> > > well (seemingly). Unfortunately, when I told the system to reboot and
> > > bring
> > > up the new installation, the system hangs. The last couple of things I
> > > see are:
> > >
> > > Simple Boot Flag at 0x3b set to 0x1
> > > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
> > >
> > > The machine is an eMachines with a 1.8GHz Celeron processor and 512MB
> > > RAM. It
> > > was running Suse 9.0 perfectly until about 30 minutes ago. :(
> > >
> > > Any suggestions from the group would be most appreciated!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Walt Novinger
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