Guest harihith Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 HI I have got a laptop with the following config: AMD turion 64 1Gb ram SIS Mx760 AGP I installed Mandrake 10.1 from a DVD and since then I am not able to loggin into madrake, neither the GUI or command prompt works, I just get a black screen. How to atleast get the command prompt/ GUI so that i can work from thereafter. I have tried all modes , enterprise, linux, failsafe no use! PLease help harihith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 (edited) your problem could be related to acpi, seems that it does not really boot at all maybe try booting with the noacpi option: at the bootloader screen press CTRL, ALT or Shift (not sure yet which is the right key), then you should get a boot-prompt, there type noacpi if your system boots after that, then your problems are related to acpi Edited December 1, 2005 by lavaeolus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Do you get a splash screen? The SiS760 is a relatively new chipset. I am using 2006 on a similar laptop with no problem. When you installed, did you use gui or command line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest harihith Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 GUYS help me!!! I have deleted linux partition using windows and now I cant go beyond grub, grub is in command prompt, I wanted to deleted madrake and install ubuntu , but now my laptop is dead help ! hari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Just install ubuntu over the old Mandriva partition. You do not need to "remove" Mandriva at all since the ubuntu install will erase it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Or use GaG as primary loader: gag.sourceforge.net Difficult to screw that one, as it uses only the MBR- no chance to wipe necessary files (like the case with LILO/grub) when you wipe partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Any distro installs a boot loader if you let it. There is no danger in wiping files, particularly if you are moving from one distro to another. (the files are deliberately getting wiped) Simply install the distro you want and install the boot loader offered with it. lilo and grub are generally offered with the distros that install with a routine, as opposed to distros that are built or boot strapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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