Guest Darkantwan Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Hi all!! I have used Mandriva before, but had to wipe my drive when i rebuilt my system. Yesterday I installed Mandriva, and it installed fine, shutdown. Today, went to boot, and the loading screen took forever. Progress bar didn't move, but then suddenly i am greeted by a black screen, and then loads of messages saying command not found, and temp file could not be written. Spec: AMD Phenom X3 8650 2.3GHz 2GB DDR2 800MHz Kingston Ram ASUS M3N78-VM Motherboard Western Digital Caviar 250gb Hard Drive 7200RPM ASUS ATI HD4670 512MB GFX Card Don't think hardware is an issue....Thinking about it, I was able to run (the same release) of Mandriva on this build just before i wiped my drive (Slight problem...long story, my fault :P) Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Some error message would be fine. When the boot graphical screen appears, press esc to see them, and if they scroll too fast, you can always find them logged inside /var/log Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 If everything is completely messed up, try a reinstall, if that also results in disaster, then it is probably a harddisk-problem. Using a diagnostics-tool would be the next step. And yeah... some more information on the kind of error-messages would be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darkantwan Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 Thanks for your advice, I have discovered my DVD Drive was to blame, apparantly dirty lens. Lens cleaning disc soon solved that though. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 IMO there was something else- not the dirty lens. Reason? If something is not read properly from the installation CD, then it's not installed, and the installer pops up an error message. But- since the second installation went fine, all the above is just philology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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