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thanks to all who participated in this string.
the addition to grub configuration solved my problems with an athlon k7 600mHz processor, dual booting with win2k.
This place rocks. About 5-6 months ago atleast, I tried installing Mandrake Linux on my 700Mhz AMD Gateway computer and it locked up. I looked all over and saw many people with similar problems, but no solution.
So recently I decided to try again, but with redhat and got the same error. And within 5 minutes I found the answer here.
I am having the same problem. I am also pretty new to Linux and I am not sue where or how i enter these boot options. I guess I am not sure on how to do this...
I have also had this problem on a Gateway with a 600 MHz AMD. During boot it just hangs at INIT: version 2.84 booting. I tired to append apm=idle_threshold=100 to the boot paramaters, but that did not solve the problem. However what did work was apending apm=off to the boot paramaters. Just another suggestion that might work
Wonderful !!!
Adding this command after Label/ worked for me.
Now I am trying to make it permanant but for the life of me I can not figure out how to get to the editing function to make it stick. I am so new at this and excited about using the RH 9 Linux I picked up.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am using gnome, maybe I am in the wrong area?
LinuxNewb
I had a slightly different problem with my AMD XP 1700+ processor m/c. My m/c used to hang at Activating Swap Partitions or at Finding Module Dependencies. This was happening after installing RH 9.0, Fedora Core 1 and Redhat Enterprise Edition 3 (RHEL 3).
I tried all possible combinations of words while searching in google but had not found a solution till today (AFTER 1 year!!)
Finally in this forum I found the answer needed.
IT IS:
adding "apm=off" at the boot line.
# vi /etc/grub.conf or # vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi apm=off
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
THANKS A MILLION ANDREW FOR SUGGESTING THIS SOLN. AFTER 1 YEAR I CAN WORK ON MY LINUX AMD PC.
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