linux (& winxp boot) troubles!!!


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1st trouble...

i have win xp (corp), then i installed linux mandrake 8. linux makes me lilo loader, where i can select some stuff:

- windows

- linux

- flopy

...

-- everything works fine, when i type "linux", but when i type "windows" i just hear my speak making some scratch noise, then everything stops.

-- but now hear this: if i make in bios "1st device to boot: CDROM" it works fine, if i select "windows".. can someone explain? any clues?

2nd trouble

in mandrake control panel i set:

--- when log in, auto run KDE (worked fine)

--- when log in, auto run GNOME (worked fine)

--- when log in, auto run SOME_THIRD_THING_DUNNO_NAME - restarted.. then just my background color shows up (nothing else!!!). i tried again next time, and it didn't do that thing.. just returned the text,

that i must delete some file like "/tmp/.X0-???..." but i don't know what's the command

3rd trouble

How can i now set to auto run KDE in text view (non graphical.. i don't know how is it called)-... is there any file, i must edit?

4th trouble

My ISDN Adapter (asus) doesn't work under mandrake, but when linux is loading.. it detects him, then do some tests and write failed... help???

i thank you all who answered me some of this questions... thank you again... ;)

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I would recommend you use loadlin, it allow you to boot into linux from command prompt. That way, you can have your masterboot record undisturbed. To do that you'll need a kernel image file. If you use Redhat-base distribution such as Mandrake, or SuSE, the image will be in /boot and the file is called 'vmlinuz' or 'bzimage'. If you're using Slackware, it's on /

the file is called 'vmlinuz' just mount in your dos partition can copy it to your dos partition.. To mount it, you can do by

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

I assume that you put your windows on a harddisk as MASTER and is on IDE1. HD = Hard disk, A = MASTER, 1 = IDE1.

/mnt/dos is where hd will be mounted to, you may change it as you like, or if it doesn't already exist you can make one by 'mkdir '

You can get loadlin at http://freshmeat.net

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The third party GUI that you set might need you to execute some command so that it can create a profile for you and then let you run the GUI. I can't help you on this one unless you let me know what are you trying to boot to.

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You mean you want to boot into text mode instead of graphic mode right? You must change the runlevel, I've been away from Linux for awile now, I can't remember exactly how to do that, but it's fairly easy and wouldn't take for than 3 secs to do it ;) I'll look around and tell you how it can be done.. :p

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I've never try ISDN on linux, but I'll be looking around, if I find any docs regarding this, I'll let you know ASAP.

:: You might want to check out this --

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/ and this http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distr...rake/index.html

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