Hang after freeing unused kernel memory
 

after partitioning my laptop, installed windows on drive c and deleting the logical drive to auto partition for linux, the installation was smooth but the computer will hang during startup when it displays:

Freeing unused kernel memory : 136K

using laptop. anyone know wad's the prob? have tried manual and auto partitioning

did a full format of the system and removing the windows partition. Tried installing Linux only but the same problem still occurs.. anyone have any suggestions?

What distribution are you using?

This could be a hangup caused by trying to autodetect unsupported hardware. Try disconnecting your devices such as modem, CD, ethernet, mouse, etc. one by one and reboot.

i'm using RedHat Linux 9.0. I have pluggeed out mi PCMCIA card and it still wun boot up. there are no other external hardware that i can remove already

You may be able to disable the internal devices through the bios.

so is plugging out the card not enuff?

Hmm no options in the BIOS allows me to disable internal devices

If you can get into your system with a boot floppy or the rescue mode from your install CD, please post the config file for your bootloader. If LILO, the file is /etc/lilo.conf. I don't know about Grub's config filename, but you might find it using a command like "ls /etc | grep grub".

can't.. all i can get to is the GRUB boot screen and the type'c' to access command line prompt. but from there cannot do much

the sentence shows before the INIT right? does that mean something's wrong with the INIT part? have been installing Linux 8 and 9 but the result is still the same. the only difference is tha amount of memory freed