Linux not booting

mahesh.chahar · 01-30-2007, 12:55 PM

I have purchased new Compaq notebook model V3155UA, with AMD turion 64. I had win XP earliar and then I installed RedHat linux 8.0 made it dual boot and grub as a boot loader linux installed with out any error but i try to boot it sometimes it boots but maximum times its not booting, it restarts automatically as i select linux from bootloader, what to do please suggests.

michaelk · 01-30-2007, 01:04 PM

Welcome to LinuxQuestions. Redhat 8.0 is very old and will not have support for newer hardware. If you want to stay with a Redhat then go with Fedora. This might fix your problems.

pixellany · 01-30-2007, 01:05 PM

Just to be clear: Sometimes it boots OK and sometimes not?

give us all the details you can about exactly what happens.

If you don't find the issue quickly, consider installing a more modern distro---RedHat 8 is very obsolete. If you like RedHat, then try Fedora 5 or 6.