I'm running:
Celeron 550 - 128Mb ram
Dell motherboard, (whatever's in the Optiplex GX100 prefab)
2 hardrives - a 7G running windows, and a 60G as slave... the first 9 are EXT2 for mandrake, the next 1 is linux swap, and the remaining 50 are storage for windows stuff, mostly MP3s and Evercrack =)
NVidia GForce 4 MX 64mb video card (always using generic NV driver for it during linux installs)
dsl connection to net, no firewall or router
dualing Windoze 98SE and Mandrake 9.1 via LILO
Heres what keeps happening:
I'll install 9.1, on the first partition of the 60g hard drive (see above) and it'll go through perfectly... i do a full install, including everything but firewall stuff and foriegn language stuff. the system installs perfectly and loads, runs, all that good stuff... i can do anything i'd need.
as soon as i reboot (using [bash$> reboot] or "reboot" in KDE) or shutdown (via [bash $> shutdown -h now] or "shutdown" in KDE) the boot will randomly lock up and stop. I've tried 3 seperate installs, and they all do the same thing... since i've noticed the problem, i've kept a vague track of where, and i've noted this happening at these steps (and a few more)
"STARTING SYSTEM LOGGER [FAILED]" - lockup "STARTING NFS DAMEON [FAILED]" - lockup "STARTING NFS SERVER " - lockup "Checking for new hardware [OK]" - lockup "SETTING SYSTEM TIME (..other time stuff..) " - lockup
every time this happens, i can still put in keystrokes, they just dont do anything but show up in the screen... usually i can also force a reboot by CTL+ALT+DEL (it switches to init runlevel 6 and reboots and does the same thing) Sometimes it even makes it far enough into the boot process to load XWindows, and i can do things as my user... but since the boot never completes, i can never access a console, or use "login" or "su" commands from within KDE.
this happens both in Failsafe, Rescue and Normal modes of bootup. I usually boot using LILO, but have tried booting off the CD as well with the same results.
I had mandrake 7.22 working on this machine quite awhile back but had to remove it because i messed up the partition table (eventually got that fixed but lost access to the partition with mandrake on it so had to remake it and format it in the process =()
Thanks much for your time and help in getting windoze off this machine =) -Chris
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