wordodd Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 (edited) I have burned the three mandrake 9.2 iso's download from VT's mirror and installed them on a Linux partition created fresh by Partition Magic prior to my install and after the entire setup is done I am prompted to reboot the machine and take the media out. I do this and when choosing to boot into Linux from the bootloader ( I am trying to setup a dual boot Mandrake/XP box) it runs through the startup process gets right past the part where it establishes an IP address and then the screen goes black. Nothing else happens, I can still hear the hard drive spining and the keyboard and mouse are still lit up. Any ideas whats going on? If it was my video card (Nvidea GeForce3 Ti 200) then wouldn't the problems arise before that? I can't get into the login screen or anything. Please help... Odd Edited February 1, 2004 by wordodd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 hi wordodd..... i don't have an nvidea card myself, but there's much discussion on needing proper drivers for those cards. check out this link for some info & help How To Install Nvidea Drivers . if that doesn't help you, i'm sure somebody that has gotten the nvidea card to work will come along & give you more help. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordodd Posted February 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 So you think it is related to the NVidea Card? I figured if it made it through the install and the startup that meant it worked fine. Odd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 Could be. Because by default mandrake uses what we call framebuffer which allows graphics during boot.Are you seeing graphical stuff at boot?....or just a black screen w/ white text? If the bootloader menu entry is 'linux', when you boot and see the bootloader screen hit; Esc then type linux vga=normal splash=quiet and hit Enter I have a gf4 mx440se and can't use framebuffer. Well, I can to boot but if I need to do anything in the console (DOS like mode) I lose the screen, it's all garbled, and I can't do anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordodd Posted February 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 Neither of those things helped any other ideas? When the system boots up I switch to verbose mode so I can see what is going on and the last step before the moniter switches off is it claim's an ip addy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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