Guest OC_Legend Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 (edited) where u go to type in your login in name then p/w after the install well i can type in the login name but nnot a p/w and i cant get logged in any help plz edit: heres some more info its installed on a sata drive and i get this every time Mandriva Linux release 2007.0 (Official) for i586 Kernel 2.6.17-smdksmp on a dual processor i686 / tty1 localhost login: Edited October 9, 2006 by OC_Legend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 question did you do a full install? it looks like you trying to log on in failsafe (safe mode) .... More info would help. try this log on the type startx let us know what happens. -SC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OC_Legend Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 (edited) i did a full install when the computer reboots it goes to the 1st option (failsafe) is 3rd i typed in startx and it promps me fo a p/w Edited October 9, 2006 by OC_Legend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 startx is the command to start X windows. Since you're at the login prompt, you need to type your user name that you added during install. For example: localhost login: ian as my name is ian. Then supply your password. Then when logged in, try startx. If it fails to start X windows, you have a problem with your x config. Then do: su (enter root password when prompted - also assigned during install) mcc and go into Display and configure your display correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OC_Legend Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 i go to type in my p/w but no letters or anything will show up its like the key is bein pussed but nothing is happening on the screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 This is normal! If it showed the password, anyone watching could see what you're typing! :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OC_Legend Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 i typed it in and it wont go through and the p/w is correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 i typed it in and it wont go through and the p/w is correct OC_Legend, Is it installed in ENGLISH? Its completely possible that the keymap is not correctly set .... when you type your username to login it should show up BUT not the password ... try typing the password in the username so you can see the keys are what you expect... when you work this out and can login you can then type loadkeys <isocode> where <isocode> is the correct iso two letter code for your keyboard (like loadkeys fr or loadkeys de) thne the keys should work as labelled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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