What video card are you using? I had a similar problem with Mandrake 7.0
using an SiS video card. Changed the card and reconfigured X and all was
well. There was an updated driver that was supposed to ship with 7.1 to
solve that problem, so it may have been mis-identification of the card.

Donn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Martin" <mazdaracer@earthlink.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:58 AM
Subject: things started to look


> I installed both the 13GB HDD w/o the IDE removable rack. Sounded better
> already with the vibrating having stopped.
>
> Looked good as I installed mandrake 7.1. Only problem was the
> pointer/cursur was a large white block! (BTW, 13GB dos is primary
> master, cdrom slave on IDE1 and the lone 13GB as 2nd IDE master for
> linux).
>
> So now linux boots! (except for the cursor problem).  Using Lilo I then
> wanted to get back to DOS to all my data and DOS programs. NOPE!
> Wouldn't boot to DOS (win98). Trying to use fdisk from linux
>     fdisk /mbr   -- unable to open mbr
>     fdisk /dev/hds /mbr  -- gives me a bit of a help list
>
> If I can recover, and I really hope I can with your help! I'm keeping
> the disks separate and removable!
>
> thanks again group!
>
>
>
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