On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:59 +0800, L. H. LOO wrote: > I left the linux scene for years. > > Yesterday, after much hassle, d/l mandriva one 2009 and mandriva free > cd1 and 2. > Burnt all iso to cds, no errors. > > Boot Mandriva One, cold not pass the boot stage progress bar left about > 10 mm length and hang. > Installed Mandriva Free 2009 CD 1 & 2 to a 6 GB hdd, done install. > Reboot, a message floating on monitor > "input signal out of range"; system hang. > > Now what to do ? ! > > L. H. LOO > >
The "input signal out of range" message indicates that your video card is pushing your monitor (or LCD panel) too hard. It would seem that the installer did not correctly detect your monitor's capabilities, and thus it did not set up the video correctly. Without knowing more about your hardware, it is difficult to give you specific advice. As well, one wishes to avoid giving you very technical advice which you might not understand, or (worse!) be condescending by not making the advice technical enough. If you can tell us about your background and what you know about your computer (manufacturer, model number, age) then we can better advise. What you might try on your own are some other distributions. In particular, since I can see that you are comfortable with burning CDs, why not try some live CDs? (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_cd for more info.) Live CDs are a good way to test your hardware for compatibility before committing an installation to hard disk. If you do not know much about your hardware, I suggest that you start with live CDs that describe themselves as "light weight" but make sure you get one that does have a GUI. I would suggest that you try them in this order: 1. Damn Small Linux (very light weight): http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ 2. Xubuntu live CD (moderate weight): http://www.xubuntu.org/get 3. The live CD from one of the major distributions (best on modern hardware): Fedora (http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora) OpenSuse (http://software.opensuse.org/) Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download, or locally at http://ubuntu.sg/download_ubuntu) Disclaimer: I use Ubuntu myself. Good luck and let us know how it goes. CDR _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
