Hello, when i tourn on my coumuter i can pick which OS i want to use. When i pick Linux and Linux-fb nothing happend. When i pick Linux nothing happend, it is just black. But when i pick linux-fb this come:

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BIOS check succesfull

Sorry, if my english is bad

What shall i do?

you don't get a bunch of white text scrolling down the screen? there should be a bunch of messages.

What version of Linux?

No i dont..

Oh, sorry.. Mandrake Linux v10 i586

Can you boot into your other os?

Yes.. I can boot into Windows. But i want to boot into Linux

Have you been able to boot into linux before? Is there any hard drive activity when you try to boot linux? Have you done any work on the drive with windows tools recently?

I got Linux for a couple of hour ago..So i haven't boot Linux before. It doesent look like it's some hardware activity. And i haven't done something spesial with Windows, right after i installed it, i tryed to boot it.

It may be either that your install was unsuccessful completely or that there is a problem with the bootloader. I take it that you are having trouble booting from fd as well. Is there a 'failsafe' option listed in your bootloader? If so give that a try and see what happens

Yes i have a "failsafe". I can test it when i come home

I have tested failsafe, and the same problem come..

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BIOS check succesfull


Shall i reinstall Linux?

I think that the install did not complete. I would re-install.

OK, then i will do that..
But when i installd Linux now i had to do alot becuse i had Windows, must i do that now?

What video card do you have?
When you see the boot loader, press
Esc
and then type
linux splash=quiet vga=normal
and press Enter.

I have a NVIDIA RIVA TNT/TNT2 64MB

then

That did not work.. So i installed it again, now this error comes after i choosed linux/linux-fb, first alot of text came down and so at last this:

Kernal panic: Resume Machine:
Unable to find suspend-data signature (-Misspelled?

is this on a laptop?


it looks like its trying to restore a machine not boot it.
what computer is it? try and be as exact as you can if its a desktop the motherboard etc.


it might have some bios setting saying its currently hibernated ?
just checking, you did do what bvc said ?

It's not a laptop, it's a DELL computer. Yes i did what bvc said.

Please describe your install process in detail. Did you create the partitions? Format them? use space that was previously part of an ntfs?

post your /etc/lilo.conf so we can remove the resume crap from it. You can access it from rescue mode. Boot with cd1>press F1 at the splash screen>type and run rescue>choose Mount your partitions under /mnt>choose go to console>type and run
chroot /mnt
then type and run
cat /etc/lilo.conf


to edit it you'll have to use vi
vi /etc/lilo.conf