I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on a Gateway 9100XL laptop. This used
existing partitioning (2.5 /dev/hda1, Win95; 330M /dev/hda5, /root; 2G
/dev/hda6, /usr; 128M /dev/hda7, swap), but was a fresh install.
The install went cleanly, but I'm having sporadic problems with
booting. Some of the time LILO 21.7 comes up with the graphical splash
screen, and selecting linux or linux-nonfb boots properly. Some of the
time LILO comes up in text mode, and selecting linux or linux-nonfb
hangs forever after printing 'Loading linux'. There is no apparent
pattern in when this happens.
Booting from floppy always seems to work. Is this a known problem? I
hunted around google and Mandrake's website for a while, but didn't turn
up anything that seemed relevant.
Thanks,
Jon
