Last week I had help installing Mandrake 7.2 to replace an old 6.1 set up
with Samba support as Linux machine and file server...
However, a few days later, the machine crashed, I had to reboot and Mandrake
could not find it's etc directory... I assumed that the disk was messed up
and reinstalled Linux, however this week I had to power down and when I
restarted, I got the same symptoms, despite a proper powerdown... So I am
beginning to assume that Lilo has not managed to find the right parameters
to boot the machine. I tried an "upgrade" but that seems to keep getting
stuck and does't get me anywhere...
I had made a boot floppy this time (last time Mandrake just shot past the
option without even letting me make one) but it would appear to be
corrupt... (shouldn't Mandrake at least check :-(
So anyway, what do I do?
Rgds
Martin
Martin Cleaver MCTranslations/Spot Software
phone: +31 20 6162224 fax: +31 20 884 1230
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 07 February 2001 00:09
Subject: Re: [newbie] Text out of the screen (console mode)
> Gigi Giorgi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've just installed 7.2 and almost all goes well but when I
> > switch to console text mode some characters at left side
> > are not visible because they are out of the screen (about
> > two characters are outside the monitor). X works just fine
> > on my Millenium G400.
> > Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english.
> > Gigi
>
> Gigi....it sounds like you may have an older non-digital
> monitor (the kind with analog adjustment wheels). If so then
> when adjusting your screen settings you may have to arrive a
> happy medium between the gui and the console because one
> setting applies to both modes. Some digital monitors also
> have this problem, but not as often as the older analog ones.
> --
> Alan
>
