thanks John,<br><br>here are 4 variations of the computer not booting up Mandriva!<br><br>1) let it start with existing Boot options, progress bar stops at about 10%<br>press escape and get the following error screen;<br><br>
<a href="http://www.steveredshaw.co.uk/error_screen.jpg">www.steveredshaw.co.uk/error_screen.jpg</a><br><br>2) delete VGA=788 from Boot options, get black screen, much scrolling, ending with this;<br><br>Code: Bad EIP value<br>
EIP: [<00000004>] 0x4 SS:ESP 0068:d747df34<br>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt<br><br>3) add noapic to Boot options, progress bar stops at about 10%<br>press Escape - much scrolling then this;<br>
<br>EIP: [<c018a024>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x44/0xb0 SS:ESP 0068:d7469d4c<br>---[ end trace 251e46bd3255ac9c ]---<br>Fixing recursive fault but reboot needed!<br><br>4) change VGA to VGA=normal, black screen, much scrolling, ending with this;<br>
<br>EIP: [<c02cfdcd>] skb_dequeue+0x2d/0x60 SS:ESP 0068:d787dcf0<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/11 John Crowhurst <<a href="mailto:info@johnscomputersupport.co.uk">info@johnscomputersupport.co.uk</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Fri, July 11, 2008 07:00, Steve Redshaw wrote:<br>
> 2008/7/6 John Crowhurst <<a href="mailto:info@johnscomputersupport.co.uk">info@johnscomputersupport.co.uk</a>>:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, July 6, 2008 18:56, Steve Redshaw wrote:<br>
>> > my Boot Options (apart from adding 'noapic...') are currently;<br>
>> ><br>
>> > L 11dd-96ee-7fdfle22462d resume=/dev/sda4 splash=silent vga=788<br>
>><br>
>> Try removing the vga=788 from the boot options and seeing if that fixes<br>
>> it.<br>
><br>
><br>
> this results in black screen, lots of computer info scrolling down (which<br>
> means nothing to me unfortunately), but then everything stops<br>
<br>
</div></div>What is the last few lines before it stops? Jot them down and post them<br>
here and we'll have an idea of what is happening.<br>
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