[TriLUG] Help with Mandrake 2005 LE

[Walt Novinger]

Douglas,

I don't get as far as being able to select interactive mode...This happens 
very early in the boot process where it's still probing hardware and the 
like. Any other ideas? :)

Thanks,
Walt
On Monday 01 August 2005 10:24 pm, Douglas Ward wrote:
> I had that problem once with Mandrake 10.2. Try booting the computer in
> interactive mode. It will prompt you for each service. You should be able
> to figure out which service is hanging on boot. This should give you more
> things to google on for finding a resolution. I was able to get by the
> hanging service by saying no when prompted to start it. It's a pain long
> term but short term it will get you past the problem.
>
> On 8/1/05, Walt Novinger <wbnovinger at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I just installed a copy of Mandrake 2005 LE on one of my machines and all
> > went
> > well (seemingly). Unfortunately, when I told the system to reboot and
> > bring
> > up the new installation, the system hangs. The last couple of things I
> > see are:
> >
> > Simple Boot Flag at 0x3b set to 0x1
> > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
> >
> > The machine is an eMachines with a 1.8GHz Celeron processor and 512MB
> > RAM. It
> > was running Suse 9.0 perfectly until about 30 minutes ago. :(
> >
> > Any suggestions from the group would be most appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Walt Novinger
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