I've just gotten past some "problems" installing Mandrake 7.2. I first
tried upgrading my 7.1 installation and wound up with a buggy mess.
Then I thought about it and decided to put the files I wanted to save
into my /home directory, which I have as a separate partition. Then I
could do a new installation while NOT reformatting the /home
partition. This idea worked great; the information in /home was not
erased.

Then I found the newly-installed 7.2 hanging on boot with the SMP
kernel. The problem turned out to be hardware; I still had one old
standard IDE ribbon cable in my setup. I replaced it with a UDMA66
cable and that solved the problem.

Onward!

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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