mandrake 10 installed OK w/out inserting UN & PW, but now insists I login USING them.... :-( WTF?

From: dave (tool_box_at_weirdstuffcox.net)
Date: 09/17/04

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    Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:29:28 -0400

    not at ALL sure how to proceed; hour ago I managed to 'dualboot' install
    mandrake 10 without entering a username and password when the CD's asked
    I do, to login to the computer later....

    so now MDK 10 boots (or more correctly -tries- to boot) into KDE
    desktop, but LILO booter _insists_ I enter a username and password (but
    I never entered any during the CD install (left those boxes all blank),
    which seemingly went 'peachy keen' with the installer =without= my
    entering them. note that clicking in the lilo username and PW boxes (but
    entering nothing in them) does -not- result in making any button
    available that I could -now- press to make it boot; the sole options are
    reboot and 'halt' (which I pretty much already am, if you get my drift).
    or, I could boot into the following 'totally unknown worlds':

    gnome
    icewm
    default (whatever THAT might be)
    failsafe (ditto)

    where I might again (ALSO) need to enter that stuff???

    by the way, I've tried logging in/booting into MDK in various combo's
    with caps lock/numlock on and off, all to no avail....

    so am I gonna have to somehow 'hack into' linux to boot the very 1st
    time? I'm a 'day one' linux user guys; be gentle with me...

    on a sidenote: while partitioning w/diskdrake, somewhere it said I was
    going to have the option to copy my partitions info to a floppy, but no
    'stick in a floppy now to do that' window, or button, ever appeared (or
    I would've done it)

    thanks for tips and ideas on how I can boot, if I get lucky :-\

    Mr FreshInstallStuck OutInTheCold

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