On Sunday 01 September 2002 06:07 pm, you wrote: > <quote who="Amanda Wynne"> > > > Wouldn't the kernel on the floppy be the same as the one on the hard > > disk, considering I installed mdk8.2 as a new installation? > > If you made the boot floppy with mdk8.2, it's most likely very similar. > Sometimes the boot floppy images are tailored for 1.44MB and 'rescue' > purposes. Not sure what Mandrake does here. > > > I also upgraded the video card recently, after the install of mdk8.2. It > > made no difference to the problem. > > > > I might also add that I'm booting to a console login. > > But it's barfing when you start X... I'm still wondering what the video > card is, because it may be related to the kernel differences. > > > There was also a layoff of about 8 months from the previous win95 / mdk > > 8.0 to the current setup due to a change of employment, during which time > > the machine was completely rebuilt. > > So it used to work okay, then you changed the hardware and installed > mdk8.2, and only then it started dying?
YES. But I wiped 8.2 and went back to 8.0 with the same results. Could it be related to the Mandrake partition being 20Gb out? > > - Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
