Hi everyone,

I dont know anything about Linux but have just tried to install Mandriva 2007 on my computer from a magazine coverdisk. I'm running it together with windows XP. My computers a Dell dimension 3100, 512 Mb Ram, 80 Gig hard drive (the partition splits the hard drive approx 50:50).

I managed to get through the set up process fine, but when i try to start the computer in linux it freezes as it tries to boot. I have tried to boot it under all possible startup modes but none of them work.

I get the following text when comming up when I try to boot in one mode

Mouting tmpfs on /dev
Creating root device
echo: cannot open/proc/suspend2/do.resume for write:2
Trying to resume from /dev/sda6
No suspend signature on swap not resuming
Mounting root file system/dev/root
Kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds

and then a little later

Welcome to mandriva linux 2007.0
Press "I" to enter interactive startup
Configuring kernal parameters [ok]
Setting clock ....... [ok]
Loading default keymap [ok]
Setting hostname loacl host [ok]

And then it just stops doing anything and freezes.

When running under the default startup mode I get the mandriva background comming up, soon followed by a loading bar at the bottom of the screen. The loading bar moves a couple of centimeters in the right direction but then it freezes about the same time as a small message comes up above the bar saying if I press escape it will do something.

I'm not sure how I can change the configuration of Linux without getting past this.

Would it be easier (or possible) to try and reinstall linux again over the previous install?


Windows still works fine, but i dont know how to rescue this. Does anyone have any ideas?

hello fanboy and welcome to pchf

un fortunatly linux is not my area of expertise i'm a complete noob when it comes to linux but i never tried that version i use fedora core 5 but i am sure that another member or tech with more linux experience will be able to help you further

genie3251

ive just started using that exact linux os. Its not bad, but a big learning curve, just about nothing works like youre used to on windows. I didnt have any problems with installation to be honest.

erm, right well the only thing i can say is that i did in fact get that exact same problem as you, when after deciding to reinstall windows i started to install then decided to abort. Anyway after that mandriva started up then froze at the lading bar. Basically i realised it was because windows had installed windows boot files onto my master drive and wiped over the linux ones. I had to reinstall linux, making sure to choose the "wipe the disk and do clean install" or words to that affect option.