Guest makarx Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 (edited) i just installed mandrake 10.1, but when i loaded it for the first time, the screen goes black. so then i tried loading in failsafe, it did some things and the last thing it did was some apc thing after checking my clock speed. then it just stays there..... (edit)TY for helpin me!(edit) Edited April 27, 2005 by makarx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Tell us exactly what is on the screen when it hangs. Are you using KDE? Did your video card get detected correctly during the installation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makarx Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 ok, its said apci was the last thing to load in failsafe. it picked up my graphics card fine and everything except for my network card. i think it has something to do with me dual booting. i am using kde, but the kernel doesnt even load..... oh yah, im using the 3 cd version, but it says there is a 4th cd for kde 3.3. i uncheckmarked it because i dont have it...... i will post my entirescreen tommorow... sleep.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Usually dual-booting would interfere with your ability to even "find" the linux system. Once it starts, it has nothing to do with dual booting unless you replaced or renamed some partition that linux is looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 what video card in particular are you using.... most of us use the same downloaded cd's (less the fourth, same as yourself) and we've worked through alot of the problems. is this a laptop or a desktop? did you check the md5sums of the iso's once you downloaded them? (winmd5sum is a handy program). worst case scenario, you reinstall disabling acpi in the bootloader options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Try a reinstall and if that doesn't work choose a diferent kernel from the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 makarx - I have merged your other thread into this one - please don't double post as it causes confusion... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 makarx - I have merged your other thread into this one - please don't double post as it causes confusion... :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Also the fastest way to get help is to be as clear in the title as possible. That way people who think they can help see it and respond quicker too! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest i_like_bread Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Im not sure if is the same as your problem but I will say anyway. When i installed mandrake and plugged in another hard drive after installing it (i didnt want it messing with xp hard drive) I got some error about nor finding the kernel image or something. I just reinstalle with all the hard drives plugged in and it configured the boot loader fright and it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makarx Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Okay. i tried reinstalling it didnt help. I had a ubutntu linux partition on my harddrive and errased it to put on Mandrake. My graphics card is the ATI Rage 128 Pro GL agp. i am surpriesed it found it because i cant find drivers for it anywhere, and microsoft just got the drivers for it like 3 months ago. (though the card is pretty dam old) If i disable the apci will i be able to dual boot. For booting i tried Grub, and then lilo. i will post the error i get in failsafe boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makarx Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 (edited) HERES THE MESSAGE: Checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd APCI: Looking for DSDT in initrd...not found! Freeing initrd memory: 174k free init init/main.c:724 do_basic_setup init/main.c:634 do_basic_setup init/main.c:636 NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3e0, last bus=1 PCI: using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) APCI: subsystem revision 20040326 spurious 8259A interrupt:IRQ7 APCI: IRQ9 SCI:Edge set to Level Trigger Then it just stays there. that isnt the whole message but is most of what i can see. in reggular boot the thing just stays black..... (edit) it might be acpi, not apci (edit) Edited April 26, 2005 by makarx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 What JohnEberger said. Reinstall disabling acpi in the bootloader options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 You can use your rescue mode on cd1, mount your partitions and in a terminal use vi to edit your lilo.conf file and turn off acpi. You probably have an append line alread so just add the acpi option in that case.That will take care of the acpi stuff. If you are using grub you can do it on the fly, but I don't know grub so you'll have to ask others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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