Hi Sam, If you could tell us what the screen says as it's trying to boot up that would help.
So far it could be: a) hardware b) disk check required c) something else.... We'd love to help if we can. Stu On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 21:20, Sammy wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sammy > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:39 PM > Subject: help! > > > Hi there, > > I came along to the Linux workshop the other week, learned lots of things and had >some new software installed onto my poota - specifically Mandrake 8.2 and OpenOffice: >thank you! I was talking to Richard and Bradley I think. > > When I set up the poota back home and plugged in the external modem I forgot to >bring leads for to the workshop, all was well. However, when I tried to open >Evolution, it crashed. I couldn't even open a terminal screen. I reset it, and since >then Mandrake hasn't been able to boot up. > > Do you have any ideas about (a) why it's not booting up and (b) what can be done so >that Mandrake is happy again... > > Thanks, > > Sam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
