Guest chris Posted October 8, 2002 Report Share Posted October 8, 2002 Hi, I've installed Mandrake 9 on my Compaq 4220T laptop. Bar a few issues, installation went fine, and I've decided to use lnx4win with GRUB. So, anyway, installation completed, the machine reboots, I select Linux from the GrUB menu. The Mandrake Linux page comes up from there, but then nothing happens. It justs gets stuck with a flashing cursor, like in command prompt. Any ideas what the problem might be? Please, keep it simple, I'm very new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 If you made a boot floppy during the install you can try booting off the floppy and see what happens. It sounds like your bootloader is not configured properly. If you can boot from the floppy and get into MD 9, you can reconfigure the thing by going into Mandrake Control Center>Boot>BootConfig. If you didn't make a boot floppy, there may be ways to get at your bootloader and reconfigure it but I wouldn't call them simple. Probably your best bet would be to reinstall, make a boot floppy and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Serenity Posted October 19, 2002 Report Share Posted October 19, 2002 If it looks like this: $[cursor] just try typing: startx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kola Posted October 23, 2002 Report Share Posted October 23, 2002 Is your graphics card GeForce4 or something new not supported by XFree86? I had the same problem, fixed it my installing NVIDIA drivers and updating the XF86Config-4 file.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ool Posted November 20, 2002 Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 I had the same problem with Mitac MiNote 6133. I found great help on www.linux-on-laptops.com. It was caused by something called "Make cpu idle calls when idle". You have turn it off via rescue. It took about 8hrs ;( but now it works and I am happy :lol: I am newbie, so I don't understand very much what I just told you, but it helped me :wink: Good luck Petr Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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