A simplified way to get your system up and running is to type linux 3 at the
Lilo prompt, it sounds like your system is set to boot into run-level 5 and
launch X-windows/kdm. If you boot to linux 3 you should be able to log in to
the system in text mode and do some debugging on your X-server. As to the
rescue disk, I haven't had very much luck (personally) getting them to work
with
my system.
Luther Blake
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>My Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14-15mdk) would not boot this morning, and neither
>would my boot/rescue disk work!
>
>I've had Mandrake for about 6 months, and have been running Slackware
>for over five years, so, i'm not a newbie, although, I may not exactly
>be an expert either.
>
>Hard drive boot symptoms: Every thing goes normally untill just afer
>the block penguin comes up and dissapears. Normally, after the penguin
>dissapears, a few seconds later, the gray X windoes screen apears for a
>few seconds, then the blue mandrake login screen appears. What I get,
>after teh penguin dissapears is nothing, just a blank screen. The hard
>drive does several seeks every 4-5 seconds, but that is all I get.
>After a minute or so of this, I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, which began the
>shutdown process. The (near) normal shutdown sequence appeared, with
>all of the green [ OK ] messages, but there was one red [ FAILED ] This
>was the very first message and it was attempting to shut down X windows.
>
>Rescue disk boot symptoms: I first used the boot disk I created during
>the installation of Mandrake. If I select Linux at the LILO prompt, it
>attempts to boot from the hard drive, and I get the same symptomes as
>above. If I select Rescue, it loads the kernel and then asks for a
>"root floppy disk". I just hit return to use the same floppy disk I
>just loaded the kernel from. This did not work, I got an error about
>not finding init.
>
>I still have my old system, with Slackware 3.? and a 2.0.0 kernel. I
>also have the same version of Mandrake loaded on this system, no X
>windows though, as my partition was only 120 MB or so. I booted to
>Mandrake and did a mkbootdisk. The man page claims this can be used as
>a rescue disk, too. Booting to Rescue in LILO, with this new disk,
>fails as the previous boot disk did. Booting to Linux in LILO also
>fails, as the hard drive is partiitioned differently on my two machines.
>
>I read the Bootdisk-HOWTO. That was extreemly complicated. I'm sure it
>would take me a few days to get through that, with a working system!
>There were several links to prebuilt boot disks, but none for Mandrake.
>
>Questions:
>
>1. Does the boot/rescue disk I made with during installation od
>Mandrake actually work in the rescue mode? How?
>
>2. Does the mkbootdisk command make a rescue disk that works in the
>rescue mode? How?
>
>3. Does Mandrake have boot/rescue disk images available? I searched
>the web page, and didn't find anything.
>
>4. Would any or some particular non-Mandrake rescue disks work OK with
>my Mandrake system?
>
>Thanks
>
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