Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 after i install spring 2007 frre, booting only leads to a curser with what looks like circle in KDE, and in Gnome it shows a white box with some randomly colored pixles on the edges. this is my first intall of linux and am really anxious to get it going, help would be much appreachiated. System: AMD Athlon 64 3700 2 Gb RAM BFG tech Nvidia Geforce 7800 GT OC (in PCI express 16) Abit ANS8-sli Nvidia nforce 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Welcome to MUB :D from your description I guess you boot to some sort of greeter where you have to give your account and password to login and choose between gnome/kde and failsafe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 grub asks me which i want to do (normal/ safe mode) then i select the top one (normal) and it just leads directly to the screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 but you said you can choose between kde or gnome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 i have installed a few times, trying both of KDE and Gnome, sorry for not being clear about that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 did you check the md5 of your burn? anyway select failsafe and add noapic and acpi=off to the end of your boot parameters (press esc and then you come into a mode where you can edit your boot lines) the line should look a bit like this: kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda3 PROFILE=default splash=silent vga=794 noapic acpi=off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 well i have thought of a currupt intall so i am currently downloading another .iso, hopefully it will be done when i get home... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 what MD5 Checking program would you recommend (for windows XP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 http://wiki.mandrivausers.org/index.php/Checking_ISOs md5summer is recommended but i never used it..... those boot options didnt work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 (edited) http://wiki.mandrivausers.org/index.php/Checking_ISOs md5summer is recommended but i never used it..... those boot options didnt work? i'm at work right now so i will try it when i get home. i started the new dl before leaving this morning... so i will try your suggestions first, then perhaps a new install from the new disc... so i should know around 6pm Eastern Edited June 20, 2007 by sccrxxvi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 I also use WinMD5sum (or something like that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 (edited) Upon using XFdrake i set to more conservative setting and found that _______ fonts (failed) this could be the root of my problem? since i downloaded a new copy of the iso i will try to install from that, hopefully it will work and it was just a bad burn... Edited June 20, 2007 by sccrxxvi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 nope didn't fix it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sccrxxvi Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 nope didn't fix it.. so now it has booted once, i disabled the auto login and it let me in! now i believe it may be working, thanks everyone for the help, Much appreciated. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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