Guest kozandr Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 I just intalled Mandrake 10.1 on my Laptop (toshiba sattelite 5005-s504) where I alreay had WinXP pro. I partitioned my hard with PM8 and tried to install Mandrake. the installation went well and I was full of hopes that i'll finally have a working dual boot. However, after the install was complete and I tied to boot into linux it just froze half way through. I tried different booting options available in lilo boot manager at the beginning and none of them worked. I allocated 10GB to mandrake. My windows boots just fine and I really want to check out mandrake. Any suggestions? Im not good at configuring and Im pretty new to linux. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 hello and welcome aboard. :D can you give us more detailed information on where the system actually stops loading? press "esc" or "F2" in order to see the message-log. and if you could give us some information on your hardware, it would be great. some stuff you can try immediately is to unplug any usb-devices that are connected to your laptop. sometimes they are the trouble shooters. and if it hangs anywhere, press ctrl+c in order to see if you can skip the "freeze" and continue booting. if this is the case, take a look at the /var/log folder of your system. there should be some log files with error messages. post any results you might stumble across. good luck :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kozandr Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 thank you for getting back to me. I just got back from work and was very pleased that there are some ppl that are willing to help. Well my system is WinXP pro 30gb HD - no SPs. I partitioned it with PM8 - 10 gb allocated to mandrake, 1024mb on swap, 13 to winXP and the rest to a logical data backup. It's pentium 3, 1.1Gh ...512 ram. I suspect that some of the hardware is "win" but i tried to install fedora, RH9, and some other ..(forgot the name of it) and they all booted without any problems yet they didn't function as I wanted them to - like sound card and modem etc. the problem is when I boot into linux it takes me to hardware check first and i see that it "oks" all the hardware and then it stopsat " checking root file system...... /dev/hda3: was not clearly unmounted "trying to test check forced" then it says that the system would reboot and it repeats itself over and over....,or if done in a graphical interface it just freezes like 40% down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 oooh... hda3... that is the winxp partition, right? in this case, you should try a search on ntfs problems (=the windows partition) and take a look at the faq section of this board. there you will find more information on windows and mandrake. i am at work right now, so i don't have much time to give you more answers now... sorry. will try to find something useful later. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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