Mandrake 10.1 installation problems

**eclair** · 01-03-2005

Hi! I am new here. I tried installing Mandrake 10.1 Official on my ThinkPad R30. I encountered no problems during the installation process but when it came to the point that I was booting it up, that's when trouble started.

I chose linux in LILO and I had it in verbose mode and there were no apparent problems. I was expecting the log on dialog, like which user would log in but nothing came up on the screen. I left it like that, thinking it might take a while but still nothing happened. I tried re-installing but the same problem happened. Please help me. Thanks!

**jeremy1701** · 01-03-2005

When you ran the Xorg wizrd and setup your GUI, did you select the option to automatically start X when booting?

Jeremy

**eclair** · 01-04-2005

I know I did. Hmmm. Maybe I should try re-installing MDk 10.1 official later and see that. But I think I did.

I'll post again sometime towards the end of the week, unless I get to install it later.

Thanks for pointing it out to me. I will have to double check when I install.

**jeremy1701** · 01-04-2005

Make sure that you run the Xorg config tool. It's easy to miss as you have to select it. You're no longer prompted for it.

Jeremy

**eclair** · 01-05-2005

I tried reinstalling last night. I selected the option to run XOrg but when I rebooted, nothing happened.

On LILO I selected linux then hit the ESC key to get into verbose mode. After the messages appeared, the hourglass appeared. Then nothing happened

I am not sure what to do anymore. Maybe it's a bad copy of the ISOs? Or bad media?

What do you think?

**jeremy1701** · 01-05-2005

Did you test the Xorg configuration when you ran the wizard? If so, you should have seen a rainbow background with an option to accept or reject the settings. If it worked and you accepted the settings and made sure to start X on startup, then that's bad

If you didn't do those steps, try it one more time.

If you did all those, try booting into single user mode, then run the command

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

Post the results here.
Jeremy

**eclair** · 01-06-2005

I will post an update once I try this out. Thanks again!

**Andy_He** · 01-06-2005

Installed smoothly, configed the XORg and setted to autostart with X, install LILO on the linux partion, after reboot it shows BIOS data checked and cannot continue bootup.

**snedan** · 01-07-2005

when i installed 10.1 its skipped where i should shouse root.. what should i do??how log in?

**jeremy1701** · 01-07-2005

Originally Posted by Andy_He

Installed smoothly, configed the XORg and setted to autostart with X, install LILO on the linux partion, after reboot it shows BIOS data checked and cannot continue bootup.

So now you have a different probem

Do you have any external devices attached on your USB port? I've heard this can cause problems? Also are you by chance using RAID?

Jeremy

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