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RH4.0 - hangs while booting on PC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Fri Nov 1 11:32:33 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:29:04 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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hara@socrates.insight.att.com writes:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I had submitted the following message earlier, but got no response. Maybe, you
> all are busy. Please take a look at my problem and mail me suggestions. Thanks.
>
> Hara
> ==============================================================================
>
> I need your insight here in solving a problem I am facing after installing RH4.0
> I have the following:
> hda - 420M - DOS
> hdb1 - 150M - DOS
> hdb2 - 350M - Linux native
> hdb3 - ~15M - Linux swap
> hdc - 4x CDROM
> My earlier setting for hdb was 200(DOS), 300(Linux), 16(Linux swap), in that order.
> I used DOS FDISK first and changed hdb1 partition to 150M and formatted the D drive.
> I can access and read/write to that dirve from DOS. Next, during RH4.0 installation,
> when offered to partition the drives, I went into the menu and partitoined the two
> Linux partitions. I set hdb3 to swap, formatted hdb2 and successfully installed the
> packages I chose. When I came to the LILO menu, I chose the "boot from floppy" option.
> This is because during earlier installation attempts, I chose to overwrite MBR and
> during boot, I got LI 10 10 ... I got the message to re-boot, and get the LILO prompt
> upon re-booting. I chose DOS - it worked fine. Tried again with linux, the kernel
> uncompresses and I get a bunch boot messages, saying this ok, that ok, etc. My first
> hard disk gets recognised but then it hangs. My guess is that my second hard disk is
> not being recognised, which is a slave on ide0.
I wonder if you just need to set up your lilo stuff again.
I would go back to the installation. Can you skip all the options (or
press cancel, etc.) until you get to the option to set up lilo, and re-do
it? One used to be able to do this in 3.0.3. I don't know about 4.0.
Also, you might try to set up lilo to work on a floppy, so that if
things hang you have a way out.
> Another question, I do not want to re-install all the packahes again. Is there a way to
> go upto lilo using the installation floppy without going through all the installation
> again, if I can avoid.
Again, I think there should be.
> Last question, does anybody know if my video card - ATI AX0 PCI - mach32 - is supported
> either by MetroX or XFree86. They do not list my card and I have to choose generic. I
> could not find any info on the card in ATI homepage. Does it have an equivalent among
> other ATI cards?
There are Mach 32 drivers in XFree and Metro-X. Try several of them.
For XFree you should run xf86config, and for Metro-X, you should run
configX, but you need to have the metro rpm installed.
If you get a blank screen or some such strange behavior, you can always
return to a standard console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bksp
-sen
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