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I hit "I" and it relists the menu. It still locks up at the same point. Kelly

I hit escape. It goes to text and I type in the selection. No matter which one I select it says loading selection.. and freezes. IE: loading failsafe... It will load Knoppix off the CD just fine. Kelly

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I should have mentioned after I go into the bios and reset the hyperthreading it is fine. It happens to both servers. The CMOS error is something I created by setting Hyperthreading off. Kelly

I have installed Mandrake 10.1 on a new HP DL140 2.4 Dual Processors 2 gig of RAM. It goes through the install just fine. I removed the install CD and rebooted. When I reboot it comes up to the graphical lilo screen. It has Linux or Failsafe to select. I select Linux it locks up with a 5th of the progress bar colored. If I chose failsafe the screen goes blank and 8 dots appear. Either way I have to kill power to reboot. Any Suggestions. Kelly

Thanks for replying, I went into the BIOS and it has two items with DMA listed. One says async DMA = multiword DMA-2. The other says: Ultra DMA = Ultra DMA-5. Neither appear to be changeable. Nothing I see allows me to enable or disable. I did see one that disabled HyperThreading technology. I disabled. It did not work but I get an CMOS error when I re-cold-boot the server. (it locks up I have to kill power to reboot) Kelly

I am not sure what the problem is. I have installed a fresh copy of Mandrake 10.1 on an identical server. It also locks up on the boot at the same place. Go figure huh!! Could the server not be capable of running Mandrake? Do I really have to go to Windows? I can get Knoppix to work just fin. Not much good to me but it does work. Any help? Any? Kelly

Now I am completely confused. I moved 160 gig HD back to the old box so I can at least have the WWW back. I moved the 80 gig HD to the master and installed a fresh copy of mandrake and it also hangs on the boot. I think it is something in BIOS. Seems to work fine with cd-rom as boot. I can load a copy of Knoppix just fine. It does not list Mandrake as supported Linux on HP site. It does list all flavors of RedHat so I am assuming if RedHat will work so will Mandrake. Any other ideas guys? Kelly

Yes I checked them for the master slave configuration. What else should I check? I do not know if the memory is an issue. The resuce disk just gave that as an example.

Booted into BIOS master/slave seems fine. Booted off the rescue disk found a floppy mount in fstab - removed it. Reinstalled lilo.conf. Still hangs on the loading failsafe....... screen. In rescue mode it says something about changing memory. Do I need to change the memory here from 128m to 2000m? Not thrilled about reinstalling as I am sure you can guess. Thanks Kelly

Help Guys! I am running Mandrake 9.1. I was running on an HP Vectra box with one 160 gig HD, single Pent III 550 meg processor, 128 meg of ram.. I purchased a new server. It is an HP DL140. Dual Xeon 2.4 gig proccessor. 2 gig of ram. One 80 gig HD. I removed the 80 gig HD, moved it to the slave position, installed the 160 gig in the master position. The new server will boot to the secure- vanilla - failsafe screen for mandrake. Now matter which one I select it locks up with loading........ on the screen. Thanks guys this is me WWW and DNS box I need it bad!! Kelly

Could someone tell me if Mandrake 9.1 has Remote Desktop like Windows 2000? If so could you point me in the direction to use it. IE: Sites. I use Webmin now but Terminal Services is a great tool. Thanks Kelly

Points well taken guys. I am going to try your suggestions. If there is a way to make changes without root login I am all for it. Like I said I do not know all the commands yet. Even VI hates me. By the way know of a good site for VI commands? Thanks Kelly

I do not know of anyway to use SU in the GUI format. I am not very familiar with the command line yet. I usually do not log in as the root unless I am going to be making changes.

I had to reboot my server and now it will no longer allow me to log into the GUI as root user. Before the reboot I could type root as the user and now it does not allow for any typing for user name. I am sure this is a security problem I just have no idea how to correct it. Any help? Kelly