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Thanks! that Suse portal helped alot! I used the 1st install CD to start the system in rescue mode. From there, i opened the grub menu.lst file and looked at the path for the kernel. I rebooted and on the grub command line i entered the right line but it gave back 'error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS '. After a little research i realised i need to make the boot partition with the first 1023 cylinders of the disk because i've got and old BIOS. When i get home i'll repartition and it should work! Though i better not get my hopes too high cos ive been at this for a week and nothing's worked yet. Thanks again

I dont know where my kernal is. i tried: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel.elf and many different combinations but it sais: error parsing number im confused but thanks anyway for the help i'll continue looking it up.

I've got a pentium 3 800MHz with 128Mb RAM (desktop). I installed Mandrake 10.1 from some CDs that came with a magazine, its the only OS in the machine. Just before the end of the installation i configuerd the display settings and when i ran the test, a rainbow-looking background appeared with a window in the middle that said: "is this the correct setting?" . Thing is i dont know! should it have those crazy colours? i continued with the installation and rebooted the system. The first thing that comes up is the GRUB command line. I assumed it was from here that that i would choose the OS to boot. I know i have to load the kernel and then boot but i have no idea where the kernel is. Is there no easier way to boot!

I installed Mandrake with no problems except for the graphics configuration. I didnt manage to get my monitor from the list and when i ran the test it didnt work so i decided to disable the graphical graphical interface and finished the installation. After the first reboot GRUB appeared in text mode (as expected) but i cannot load linux from here. I pressed TAB to see the possible commands but none seem to apply or work. What can i do? what is the command? Thanks