Wouldn't the kernel on the floppy be the same as the one on the hard disk, considering I installed mdk8.2 as a new installation?
I also upgraded the video card recently, after the install of mdk8.2. It made no difference to the problem. I might also add that I'm booting to a console login. There was also a layoff of about 8 months from the previous win95 / mdk 8.0 to the current setup due to a change of employment, during which time the machine was completely rebuilt. Amanda On Sunday 01 September 2002 05:42 pm, you wrote: > <quote who="Amanda Wynne"> > > > My main machine at home is a dual boot machine. If I boot into mdk8.2 (or > > previously 8.0) via lilo off the hard disk, when I log in & then go > > "startx" it crashes big time. Like black hole. nothing. Ctrl Alt > > Backspace won't rescue it. Reset button is only option. If I boot from > > the boot floppy I made when installing, it works fine. > > > > Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE with a Duron 1000 processor. Hard disk > > is 40 Gb. first 20 Gb is for windows. Second 20 Gb for Linux. > > > > I previously had a Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard with K6-2/450 processor > > and 20 Gb HDD dual booting Win95 & MDK8.0 which worked fine. > > Hrm, what's your video card? Sounds like that will be the culprit, and > perhaps its related to kernel support for it, given that it worked with the > previous kernel (on your boot disk). > > Depending on the card, you might want to choose a different Mandrake > kernel. > > - Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
