anirudh

So the nv driver works but not the Nvidia driver.

mandriva is working fine pal.... I just wanted to know what commands meant

Thanks pal.... that worked....

Can I know what are those commands for???? don't know anything here.... just asked out of enthusiasm

Thanks to all who took time to post in this thread to help me

I am just saying that remaining linux distros(fedora, ubuntu) are working fine without any errors. I don't know much about these, so just telling whats going on with my system when I m trying particular things. So that one can guess what might be the problem

at that black screen(like command window) i tried some combinations of ctrl+alt+(some fn key)... then a lot appeared on my screen... I guess that is what happeneing while mandriva is loading.... I found these errors in the screen and I guess they are the possible errors which make linux install stall. now i give what i saw on the black screen

(date) local host kernel eth0: no IPV6 routers present

(date) local host logger: Error: shorewall start failed

(date) local host kdm[3013]: xserver for display: unexpectedly

(date) local host kdm[3013]:Unable to fireup local display:0; disabling

I hope this might be useful in solving my problem....

@K Bergen

I have given this command "XFdrake" with root login and some options came with "xserver" as title.

I selected the video driver best suited for my mother board and what should I do next??? after that the black screen is returning back with

"Using '/etc/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf' to provide 'gl-conf' at the top and root at the bottom of the screen

What should I do next???

I have left some unpartitioned space exclusively for installing mandriva.... I guess tat is not a problem relating to disc format....

P.S: ubuntu7 is working fine.... just installed that.....

There's no problem with burning and i checked the MD5 sums... I wil try that code and give a reply ASAP

Someone please reply for that

the failed message in the video is for "need_remove_empty_extended"

And the output for your commands

for "startx" --> can't run in frame buffermode. Please specify the bus IDS for all frame buffer services

waiting for xserver to begin accepting connections

giving up

xinit: Connection reset by peer(err no 104): unable to connect to xserver

xinit: No such process(error no3): Server error

for"lspci" I am giving the info about video driver

VGA compatible controller nvidia corporation geforce 6150SE nForce 430(rev a2)

I logged on to guest account.... after that What should i do??? I just know that if I press "su" i l go to root.... tell me how to continue install from there on....

can u people tell me how to calculate md5 hash given a particular iso file

I didn't install mandriva till now.... this things are happening when I boot with mandriva disc

May be I am going mad:)

When it gets to the blinking dash on the black screen press Ctrl+Alt+F1 which hopefully gets you to a login prompt.

Login there and use

startx

to try and start the desktop.

Report any errors you get if it doesn't start.

 

Ken

What's the login I should use.... what ever i press its reappearig

Welcome aboard. :)

 

It could be several things that made the boot-process freeze. First of all, before you burn an iso image, you should verify that the md5sum is okay (=that the iso-image is in tiptop-condition). Secondly, it can be that some piece of your hardware is not fully compatible/not fully implemented yet into Mandriva. When the system boots, you can press "Esc". The bootup screen should then switch to a mode where you see what the system is doing, that is which services are initiated and which ones probably got stuck. Try that boot method and take care where the system says "Failed" instead of "OK".

 

If you get a black monitor, it usually means that the graphical server didn't kick in. Could you tell us which graphics-card you have? That will probably make it easier for narrowing down the problem.

 

The installation process is never started unless you tell the system do start the installation process. Once the instalaltion process starts, you will see several windows where you have to answer some simple questions/make decisions about your system setup.

 

PS:: crtl+alt+del, if pressed twice will reboot the system. ctrl+alt+backspace will reboot the graphical server.

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuV_W_5wbg

This is what happens when i boot using mandriva....

please watch the video and assessmy condition

hi friends I am new to linux .... a week back I installed fedora 7 and it installed fine.... I heard the mandriva is good for a user who want to switch from windows. So i have downloaded a file from a torrent mentioned in mandriva home site. the file name was "mandriva-linux-one-2009-KDE4-int-cdrom-i586"

I burned it to a cd and restarted the computer. It started booting quite well. Then a black screen came with a blinking hyphen just like DOS except for that the whole screen is empty. Since I didn't knew what to do i pressed ctrl+alt+del and it moved on a bit and the progress bar started stopped. I waited around an hour thinking that it is installing the OS. But nothing happened. I don't know what problem was. Please tell me what to do. I left 7 gb space unpartioned like I did while I installed Fedora. Please give any possible solutions

My CPU details are: AMD 64X2 2.2GHZ , 2GB ram, M2N-MX mother board, SATA 320 hard disc at 5400 RPM