I just installed Mandrake 8.1 last night, again after deciding that I wanted to dual boot again. I have set it up to boot to LILO and from there I can go into Windows, Linux, Floppy, etc.
When I choose to go into Linux it boots up to the shell prompt. This is what I want it to do. From there I want to be able to type a command to load "X". I prefer to use Gnome for my window manager. I tried typing X at the prompt, while this seems to try to start X it freezes up the system and I can't get it to respond to anything. I get a grey screen with an X in the middle and it tries to load for about 30 sec then it stops, I have let it sit there like that for 15 min nothing else happens. I rebooted and tried to type startx and this didn't do anything. On my Redhat machine I have a similar problem when just typing X to load it, but startx usually works fine. Can anyone help me load gnome from the shell prompt. Thanks
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