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i have an hp ze4430us laptop, which i am trying to hook up to an external sony trinitron multiscan e400 monitor. when i plug the monitor into the laptop while linux is running, it works fine, however if it is plugged in at boot, it goes into powersave mode and wont display anythiing. it is only an annoyance because i often have restarted with the monitor plugged in, and i have to restart again with it not plugged in and then plug it in after booting to get it to work, this is not the case with windows, which displays on both monitors. there must be a way for me to keep the monitor plugged in and have linux use it as the display, instead of putting it into powersave mode. i have tried messing with the mdk control center options for monitor, and nothing seemed to make a difference. thanks for any suggestions you may have.

its hda8, im gunna try to work this out. thanks for the replys

ok i have changed the line in question to: /dev/hda8 /moltar vfat user 0 0 and it still doesnt work. if i su to root, and run nautilus /moltar, it works perfectly. can anyone tell me what is wrong with my fstab?

heres my fstab. what do i do? /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 none /mnt/win_c2 supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda8 /moltar vfat defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

Ok, hda3 is mounted as /moltar. it is fat32. when i try to go to /moltar, i get access denied. When i use the terminal as root, i am able to browse the folders. Mandrake put something on my desktop, called win_c2, and when i open it i see the folders in hda3, but they are not folders but unknown files which cannot be opened. All i want is to be able to access this partition, so that i can listen to my music. what do i do?

I have installed Mandrake 10.0 ce, and lilo now works, but after selecting linux, i just get a black screen. in failsafe, and the other modes, it locks up on the line ACPI: IRQ9 sci: level trigger in installation, i selected enable acpi. I would like to now disable this so i can boot without reinstalling. Thanks for any help.

too late, formatted. thanks anyways, im sure i will be back

i will not be defeated. tonite i will format my sda, use it to backup all the valuables i havent already lost, and tomorow i will resize my NTFS and load up linux on there (please god). what should i partition my empty space as before i put linux on there, and how much space do i need for mdk10? also when configuring bootloader, what do i do to dual boot with winxp and linux on the same drive? thanks for all your help!

that sucks...

chroot /mnt also dosent work, same problem as before i stil cant find lilo.conf, in /mnt/sda1/mnt/ i see no /ect/, only folders cd-rom and windows

also another stupid question, wheres lilo.conf? i used find files, but nothing comes up, and it takes about .5 seconds to search.

when i leave out the /bin/bash, it puts it in there for me, giving me the same error chroot: cannot change root directory to /bin/bash: Not a directory

it says chroot: cannot change root directory to /bin/bash: Not a directory ??

ok il try that, but i have no floppy drive (new laptop). can i do it with a cd? or some other way? also, sorry for my newbishness, but the path to the partiton i think is /mnt/sda1 but am a little confused, maby it is /dev/sda1?

aight im in knoppix, and can see my mandrake partitions. what do i do?