Problem with Mandriva Installation Disk

[gorsefore]

I want to install Mandriva on a separate hard drive in my system but cannot even get it to work from disk

I downloaded Mandriva 2008.0 checksum is fine and disk burnt

When I try and run from disk it geos through the install process but then there is a black screen. It does not stop during the optional verabl phase but when that has completed. There is avery quick black scree with some white writing that I do not have time to read.

After searching on Google I discovered the F3 option to alter boot up

When I press F3 it gives me

initrd=/bood/cdrom/initrd.gz fastboot splash=silent vga78

research on google gave me various possibilities

splash=silent already there

acpi=off

IRQPoll

ide=Nodma


I have tried these individually and in combination

Is there a sequence issue?

I am working on a Dell Dimension 5150 running Windows XP home SP2

Pentium D930 300 MHz processor

1024 Mb ram

Hard drives 110 and 38 GB

Any help most welcome

[Jonathan183]

Should the vga option be 788? Have you tried without splash=silent and see if you get text giving more info what is happening?
You could also try nopcmcia as a boot option.
Does pressing ctrl+alt+f1 bring up a terminal?

[minthaka]

Does your PC react to the 'Esc' button during the boot time? You could read some informations about the booting status. I had similar issues with Mandriva 2008.0 on a laptop. I could not solve it, but anyway maybe you can read at least what's wrong. I would recommend you to use Mandriva 2008 Spring RC1 instead, since the final version is at hands (scheduled for 9.th of April)

[gorsefore]

Thanks for the responses

VGA should have read 788 - that was my typo

If I run without splash=0 I get the detailed boot sequence but still a black screen

Boot sequence definitlely gets as far as "interface eth0 OK"

I see "Local Host log in" but about then everything goes to a black screen possibly after "back space key sends?"

I tried adding nopcmcia but it still went to a black screen

I do not get a control panel for control+alt+F1 but F! gives the verbose version as without splash=0

I get no response to Esc during boot sequence

Does it make any difference the order of the items such as splash=0?

Thanks again for your help

[gorsefore]

Google searches have offered me several bootup variants but none have worked

noapic black screen

nolapic no boot

noapic nolapic black screen

acpi=off noapic black screen

Exploring the options revealed by help I have used variants of acpi=off and ide-nodma

Are these case sensitive?

The help also mentions a safe settings installation but I cannot seem to find what they are