Ok, before I start, I'm a total Linux n00b. I do however have minor experience with the Terminal in Mac OS X.
I have just finished installing Mandriva onto a second hard drive, along with Windows on the first. Everything works fine (eg, the bootloader) but whenever I boot into Mandriva it doesn't work. It seems that it can't initialize the display manager (I'm using KDM). It used to not boot because of ntpd not working, but I disabled it. From what I've gleaned from using verbose startup mode, everything loads fine, then it tried to load kdm. When this happens, I either get two screens depending on what method I use (more info on that in a bit): I either get a black screen that doesn't do anything, or a screen that looks like an input, with an underscore that doesn't respond to anything. I don't want to give up on Linux yet!!! I can provide more info, and I've already tried other methods in safe startup mode (startx, startkdm, xfdrake etc)
Will
P.S. If this is posted elsewhere, sorry! Just send me a link to the appropriate post.