On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:16 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > In spite of my worries, curiosity (and your encouragement!) has caused > me to install Mandrake. Everything seems to have gone well. I have > no problem choosing either Linux or Windows at startup. However... > > When I choose Linux, all goes relatively well [*], but then I get to > the big scary black screen that demands my "localhost login" and > password. Fine...I enter both, and then I see this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] melissa l$ <blinking cursor> > > I have no idea what to type next! :-) Since I can't get past this > point, I had to shut down the power (only way I could find to escape > this looming black hole). >
Way to go, just dive right in, that's the only way to learn. Did you tell the installer not to start X on boot? try 'startx' to start up a gui, 'halt' to shutdown, 'reboot' to, you guessed it, reboot :-)> [*] As I was watching the boot up in "verbose" mode, while most things > displayed a nice green "OK", I did notice a couple of red "Failed" > items: > > Port Mapper > Random Number Generator > > So...any ideas regarding either of these issues? > Hmmm. port mapper is need for nfs. Not sure why that would start up. Random number generator, never seen that failure. type 'dmesg | less' at a prompt and see if there is anything in the output to give a clue. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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