I have installed mandrake 8.0, but when it boots it freezes while loading harddrake.

oh. that's nice.

Hi. Is this the only time you freeze? I mean like this: are u running windows: dual boot with another operating system. We need a little more details. Ok here is my example ok. I could not get Linux-Mandrake 7.2 to install either as I kept freezing up (my first 3 tries). But when I thought about it I was also freezing up a lot in windows. I had to really think about this as I had just paid 150 dollars to get this machine completely tested to make sure it was in running order. Ok many things can cause freeze ups: give us more information. What are running this on and with. Other freeze us?

Are you booting the graphical boot? If so try booting using the other boot option in LILO menu (non GUI). This will be text based let it run through and see where the boot stops, I had simular trouble and thought that a service was hanging me up, when I ran this in text mode I found it was not the service that was listed on the screen when I was using the graphical boot. Once you can identify the service forsure, reboot and this time hit 'I' when it first begins to boot. This will allow you to confirm each services, just choose not to boot the service which is causing the problem, once you are in safely you can begin to troubleshoot further. In my case it was a service what I didn' want running anyways so I turned it off completely. Easy way to manage services in is Linuxconf.

Also if it is harddrake it might be waiting for input regarding a device, you will be able to select options when in the text based boot.

I turned the graphical boot off completely after this, just to avoid the problem again.

good luck!

Been wanting to know how to turn that graphical mode off! Hehe thank you thankyou geeze you would never believe how much reading i have done and could not find one place to turn it off! Today you are my best friend!! Oh just love you today!

Somewhere in the Control Center you can turn it off completely, and also revert to a non GUI LILO too.