[LUG] Mandrake 10.1 stilly playing silly so-n-sos

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I mailed a while ago about MDK10.1 being increasing unreliable to boot 
up.  It went away so I forgot about fixing it.  However the last week or 
so *every single day* when I boot the PC I've had to start MDK at least 
twice, normally three or four times.  The boot sequence goes something 
like this:

PC boots up
LILO - select MDK 10.1
sometimes it fails to detect eth0 which means a reboot anyway
then if it does get into X without error, sometimes it hangs waiting for 
the log in dialog box, but most times it will hang after I've entered my 
username and password and clicked OK.

If that happens as is most often I have to reboot and go through all the 
rigmarole of "*whatever* was not cleanly unmounted, do you wish to 
check?"  Then if I don't say Yes it does it anyway.  I know it's best to 
say Yes and I usually do :)   The times I don't are usually down to 
being distracted at the relevant point.

If it doesn't boot cleanly after that it's back to square one.

Any ideas gratefully received.  A friend of mine gave me a copy of the 
freebie version of Xandros which he loves.  Would it be worth ditching 
Mandrake and trying that out?  /home is on a separate partition so I 
would imagine it would survive as long as I remember to tell the 
installer not to format it.

Kind regards,

Julian

PS Sorry Alex I did it again!

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