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Hello:
I'm new to Mageia. I must say I do like the look of this distro and "what is under the hood." Good and useful apps. I encounter an unusual instance. When I first turn on my computer at the grub screen I get the black boot screen before the Plymouth splash even starts. I am asked for user and login info in the black screen pop-up. I found that I have to use root as the user and my set password to get to the Megiea login screen. When I get to the Mageia login I find that no login information is needed. I just hit enter and it boots into the desktop. What is this and how to fix it. This is with KDE 17.1

Oh I did review the install guide and found issues with Intel microcode Asus BIOS; but I am running the Dell A17 version. Could this be related? I'm currently running Neptune 6; but would rather get back to running Mageia. Thanks for any help. =-)

It sounds like you're set to boot to runlevel 3 by default. Although, I'm not sure why you'd need to log in as root, unless you did not create a user account. Make sure you create a user account and change the default runlevel to 5.

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systemctl set-default graphical.target

Then reboot and see if it loads the display manager.

Hmmm...I did create my user info. Will do. Fingers crossed. =-)

If you still have this problem, you might have a look at the screenshots in this thread:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12063
The second screenshot shows the login prompt you get if you have set a bootloader password.
The thread also explains how to get rid of it again.

Wow okay. What a time I have had. I had problems with two separate installs. Same instance with trying to install from Megeia 7.1 live. So I tried to use the Megia 7 live install. Same thing. So I tried with the classic install method which finally did work. It only took me a day and a half. Argh... I did noticed something that may have been relevant but not for sure. I was using the same administration password and my user password. Not sure if it was the install iso or that password saet. Anyway I have Megeia on my machine now with everything working; and am happy. =-) Thanks for you time and concerns. =-)

I did noticed something that may have been relevant but not for sure. I was using the same administration password and my user password

This is not a problem. I do it myself.