I just think your refresh rates were out of range, as the message said. Try adjusting them. Hope you made a backup of the config file.

Look for a monitor with similar specs. If you have a 17'' look at 17'' monitors...

Adjust the rates to that and it should work.

Hmm I think it's not just my refresh rate.. because if I looked in the XF86Config file then there was 800x600 which is too big.. that made the out of range.

If I look at my currently desktop settings on windows then the refresh rating is:

H: 79 KHZ
V: 75 HZ

On 1280x1024 resolution..


The stranges thing ever is, I tried to install red hat with the same monitor and the default XF86Config on a "other" "older" machine..

I just added this on startup "linux resolution=1280x1024" and it worked perfectly.. smothly everything..

Oh and yes.. my Monitor is a Priceton R19MS model.. maybe do I have to write that in the XF86Config too ? if yes where ?

I don't know if and where ou have to write the monitor type. Actually I do know where. It is just not so simple as XFree has some rules about monitor type typing in. If it is just your resolution, change it under the screen section. in there type "1280x1024@85" Which would mean 1280x1024 at 85Hz (or whatever your monitor supports)

Sorry to bring this thread up again, but it relates to my problem as well.

I had the same out of range error on installation, so I setup RH9 through the text-based setup. Everything ran fine, but once it attempts to load RH for the first time GRUB does not list any kernels to boot from. All it says is "GRUB" at the top of my screen and I cannot type anything. At that point, the only thing that I can do is reboot the machine.

I was thinking that it could possibly have to do with the partitions that I setup. Tell me if this looks good:


(rough estimates of space)
1 /boot ext 500MB
2/ ext 37100MB
3 swap 550MB

Is that the correct partitioning for GRUB on the boot partition with most of my space allocated for apps?

I also booted into single mode and checked the XF86Config to make sure that my monitor's settings were correct, but the HVs are set to the specs of the monitor and the resolution is not too large.

I am stuck!!

I guess at this point I just need to know why GRUB is not loading the kernel that was installed with RH9. I am still new at this so bear with me!

Thanks

Let's start with getting through grub:

find /boot/grub/grub.conf
or
find /grub/grub.conf

Try both, whichever gets you the results. It should return something like (hd0,1) or any other numbers.

Next, use that partition:

root (hd0,1)

(or some other numbers, which you got from the find command)

Next load kernel.

kernel /vmlinuz (as you write this far, just press TAB once or twice and it will give you the kernels availablem, if any then it is ok, just choose one, you probably have just one.)

The complete line for kernel loading should be:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.X.x-x.x ro root=LABEL=/

(find and put in your kernel name with TAB, remember)

Next all you have to do is choose the initrd file:

initrd /initrd (again press TAB once or twice and it will autocomplete the initrd name)

In the end you should have a :

initrd /initrd-2.X.x.x.img

And finally:

boot

You should be in your RH by now

Happy and smiling.

One more thing.

Once in redhat. Yes you can use rescu mode or single mode. just run the command:

/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda (presuming you only have on harddisk)

That should do the trick of pointing the grub to the correct partition and installing GRUB graphical loader on your MBR.