Mandrake 8.1 Boot up Problem

[d2tu]

I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 and during boot up, the system hangs when it tries to set the system clock time according to the hardware clock time. It also hangs when I hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot the system when it tries to sync the system clock and hardware clock. I'm not sure what to do here...

Some System specs:
Asus P3V4X (Via Apollo Pro Chipset)
P3 533EB
Maxtor 7200 rpm, 20gb harddrive

 

[d2tu]

Bump....help anyone?

 

[KenCleanAirSystem]

Have you checked your logs to see if you can get an error report? It may make it alot easier to diagnose if you can see some output of what is happening when it hangs.

Fortunately *nix logs lots of stuff, including bootup to files you will find in /dev/log/ in Mandrake. Other distributions, flavors of unix store them in different places, but Mandrake logs just about everything by default to /dev/log. Take a look at your bootup log with a text editor like vi or pico and see if you can find where the error happens.

Most probable cause is that unix unlike Windows assumes that your system clock is set to GMT and will adjust the clock you see based on that and what timezone you live in. If I recall from the last time I installed Mandrake there is the option during installation whether to assume system clock is GMT or not. It's easy to miss, and could cause similar problems to what you're experiencing. That would be my guess anyway....