On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Bill Bennett wrote:
> I'm hbaving trouble with my laptop, which is running Mandrake.
Version?
> For some reason, I boot up and the process goes to the cheerful penguin,
> ticking off the tasks. It stops at "Mounting USB files" and refuses to budge.
How long did you wait? It might timeout.
DO you need USB to boot? Try booting with 'nousb' arg. to LILO.
Hopefully that fixes it.
I found that in /etc/init.d/usb :
grep -iq nousb /proc/cmdline && exit 0
Otherwise, boot with rescue floppy (mini-distro like tomsrtbt), mount the
root fs, and edit the config.
> I suggested that simply re-installing Mandrake from the disks (which I
> have) might work, but even if this were possible, would I not lose the
> data files (which are important)?
Arrgh! You've been using windoze, havnt you? Re-install is rarely the
easier way in Linux.
Hopefully you have a separate /home partition for your data?
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