<quote who="Amanda Wynne">
> My main machine at home is a dual boot machine. If I boot into mdk8.2 (or
> previously 8.0) via lilo off the hard disk, when I log in & then go "startx"
> it crashes big time. Like black hole. nothing. Ctrl Alt Backspace won't
> rescue it. Reset button is only option. If I boot from the boot floppy I made
> when installing, it works fine.
> Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE with a Duron 1000 processor. Hard disk is
> 40 Gb. first 20 Gb is for windows. Second 20 Gb for Linux.
>
> I previously had a Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard with K6-2/450 processor and 20
> Gb HDD dual booting Win95 & MDK8.0 which worked fine.
Hrm, what's your video card? Sounds like that will be the culprit, and
perhaps its related to kernel support for it, given that it worked with the
previous kernel (on your boot disk).
Depending on the card, you might want to choose a different Mandrake kernel.
- Jeff
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