I have a Red Hat ?

hehe...ok...i jus wanted to use the pengy smiley but anyway...

Problem:
When I boot up my computer it uses GRUB to choose my OS have three choices, two of them are RedHat8. When I choose either or...it begins to load and the last line where it freezes at...it displays this message:

apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.16)

two of them are RH8??, you have two installations of RH8 in your computer?

please explain a little more,

does redhat have the same sort of default boot configuration as mandrake? linux and linux-non bf that would i think account for the two redhat entries...then for the rest all i know is it will have something to do wiht the motherboard itself...

if you mean that...if RH and Mandy have Lilo and Grub, I believe they both handle both boot loaders.

The two choices are as follow:

Red Hat 2.4.18-12
Red Hat 2.4.18-17 8.0

although i do not think the problem lies within these two options...im just a newb

The problem is with apm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the error message is telling that there is a difference between the version of apm known to the BIOS and the version of the driver that Linux is trying to load.

I believe the solution is to turn off apm (power management) until you can get the driver difference sorted out. You should be able to do that in the BIOS setup.

hmm, cool, I didn't know that, but it makes much sense,

APM is an older power managament...newer systems use ACPI. I've searched on the internet on how to remove APM, and I cannot because APM is not installed on my system. In my BIOS, for ACPI settings...basically everything is "turned off' (just no in those exact words ie: disabled or power off).

This is all the line of code visible to me before it freezes its operations and my computer.
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Page-cache hash table entries 65536 (order: 6,262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 cache: OK, L1 D cahce: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU #0.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done
Enabling unmarked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking hlt instruction... OK
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr:v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0:assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0
isapnp:Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp:No Plug & Play devices found
speakup initalized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm:BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.16)



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Any help would be greatly appreciated

still having this problem
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Encountered a situation similar to yours; the solution I found, which
involved a change to /boot/grub/grub.conf, might help.

Started with a P4-1.5GHz machine whose 80Gb IDE hard disk was fully
occupied by 2 NTFS partions, booting win2ksp2. Shuffled filesystems
around and used a third party partioning program to repartion the drive
thus:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 958 7695103+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1025 3114 16787925 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 959 1024 530145 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3115 5466 18892440 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3115 3376 2104483+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 3377 5466 16787893+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
#

During subsequent installation of Red Hat 8.0 I used Disk Druid to
specify which partions would be used: /dev/hda3 for /boot, /dev/hda5
for swap and /dev/hda6 for /. I also chose the GRUB boot loader (over
LILO) and specified that it be written to the MBR (master boot record)
rather than the boot sector of the /boot partion.

After installation GRUB could successfully boot win2k but not Linux from
the hard drive. As with your machine, the last lines on the console
were something like:

Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)

I could boot off of the floppy created during installation, however, and
found that the stanza for Linux in the GRUB boot loader configuration file,
/boot/grub/grub.conf, looked a little funny:

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img

The "root" parameter to the GRUB "kernel" command didn't smell right --
something like failure of a variable/template to be expanded. I changed
this stanza to:

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hda6 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img

Notice again that /dev/hda6 was the partition containing / (the root
filesystem) on my installation.

After this change Red Hat 8.0 booted just fine from the hard drive.