Kieth Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 (edited) I installed Mandriva 2007 Free, which went very well. Only problem, I get a blank screen after lilo. Actually I had the same problem with 2006 {after installing a new motherboard and video card}. Since the 2007 was about to be released, I decided to wait. Reading another topic, I decided to use a live CD {Suse - the only distro I can get to work} to replace my Mandriva xorg.conf file with that of the Suse xorg.conf. One problem, I can't find the Mandriva file. Any idea where I can find it, or resolve my problem? Thanks. Edited November 1, 2006 by Kieth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 The Mandriva xorg.conf is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted October 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 That's the file I copied, but I thought that was Suse's file. Well, I suppose it is for both, only I cannot find 'my' oriiginal files (home, etc.), but only those 'made' by the Live cd. Where, in the file directory, can I find the Mandriva file structure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted October 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Ok, I found it, but I can't get to it. Could you tell me the mount options to enter when I boot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Depending on partition info, easy way to mount: mount /dev/sda5 /mnt if I assume / is /dev/sda5 and mounting to /mnt. The rest will be taken care of. Then you can go to /mnt/etc to find the file. Alternatively, check /mnt first to see if there are any other directories there, if so do: mkdir /mnt/root mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/root then you make sure it doesn't get confused with the other directories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Well, I tried and tried to mount the hard drives, but couldn't. Anyway, just by using the computer, Mandriva finally "straightened" itself out. Now everything works well. Thanks for the help. Kieth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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