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I installed Mandrake 10.1 on a virtual machine,
installation went ok, but after rebooting it gave out black screen with this:

Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (official) for x.586
Kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk on an i686 /tty1
localhost login:


after i punch in my user name, it gives out: [username@ localhost username]$


what command is it waiting for ?

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that's a command prompt -- it's waiting for whatever command you want to give it. it's similar to booting to DOS

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Assuming you installed an X server, "startx" will load the gui.