hi, have a fairly aged machine which could only take mandriva 2009 (fedora and latest mandriva do not install). It was running fine. Now it was decided to make it a server, so an extra lan card was put in. Boots, mandriva flash screen appears, progress bar at the bottom reaches about 3/4th of the way and then nothing happens. Multicoloured patches appear, for example, where the mouse cursor should be we get a multicoloured square that does not move. Once or twice it booted, kde came up and I was able to use the machine. The new lan card was detected ok.
after a day or two it used to reach that stage and hang. I tried safe mode and it worked perfectly giving the full kde screen at good resolution. So it is not a grahics card problem. so I tried again. it hung. there is no reset button, so I just tried ctrl-alt-delete - and hey presto - the kde login screen came up and it worked perfectly after that. Any clues about what on earth is going on? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
