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I Installed the rc today, but when I try to boot up mageia the screen just shows random colors and doesn't go any further. I've been having the same problem with other distributions as well, I can't get any to boot without freezing.

Specs

toshiba
amd e-350
ati 6310

Where exactly does it go south? After the GRUB (the bootloader) screen?

If so, try booting to run level 3, when booting, at the GRUB screen press F3 select "default" then press Enter, in the command line that appears type:

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3

then press Enter. This should take you to a text console, does that work?

I get past grub, and managed to get to the login screen using nomodeset, but thats where it froze. Ill try what you suggested and see what happens.

I tried to boot to run level 3 but I didn't get any command line, but i'm able to boot with safe settings if that helps any.

OK, please file a bug report (so that the issue doesn't get lost), at https://bugs.mageia.org and include the output of 'lspcidrake -v' (e.g. while running a Live Mageia CD, or a Mandriva installation on the same machine... etc).

Ill file a bug report, but i think the problem is with the 2.6.38 kernel. I ran pclinuxos fine on the default kernel, but got the same result when i upgraded.

Disable modesetting and it should boot. I added

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radeon.modeset=0 nomodeset

to the kernel boot options. Update and install fglrx after this.