On Sunday 22 June 2003 02:27 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: > I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I > am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to > load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting > both secure and just linux. > > The system loads and takes me to a text based login. Here I login and I am > taken to the shell (Bash). I type KDE to try to boot the windowing system. > A blue background comes up with an X shaped cursor. It then comes up with > an initialization screen. This last for a few moments. The initialization > screen disappears and the blue background remains. The hard drive > continues to hum like it is working, but nothing ever happens. Does anyone > have any suggestions? > > Also, I have considered trying to run Gnome instead, but because I am new > to linux I do not know the command to start a Gnome session. > > Wade when you get to the login and it gives you the text based login and the shell, at the shell prompt type "startx" without the quotes. This should give you the default you chose during install, normally KDE desktop. If no desk top then the video config is not right for your comp setup. If no desktop come back to the list with hardware info, like: video card, monitor brand etc. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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