On Saturday 12 May 2001 15:15, Jon Leech wrote: > 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 Let's see /etc/lilo.conf and fdisk -l /dev/hda Civileme
