Hi again.

Have just posted here and solved my problem with partitioning and installing my brand new shiny RH 8.0 and are starting up 4 the first time and boom, back 2 square one...=(

Anyway when i booted for the first time everything was working great until i came to this line:

Uncompressing kernel
.....jada
.......jada
........jada
(This line) amp: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.16)

After thit line, the cursor just stops at the next line and just blinck. Can´t do anything all i can do is rebooting the system??

Anybody got some ideas???

Thx in advance..

The newbie...

somewhere in the jada jada jada is the _real_ error that locks up your boot process. Post the complete error message and someone here will have better suggestions for you.

BTW, while using phrases like 'gr8' and 'starting up 4 the first time' might make one look 'cool' in a different scenario, please refrain from doing so in a technical forum where it will attract unnecessary attention and discourage people from replying to your post. Proper english is always recommended.

Sorry about the language i only do it beacuse i'm lazy...I'm not trying to look cool...From now on i will use proper english...And i'll post rest of the message when i get home today...

I am having the exact same problem except its happening with redhat9. Exact same problem.. I could really use some help with this if possible. thnx

Welcome to LQ, s0undLogic.

We need the exact error message.

This is all that I can see on the screen when it stops after stuff goes buzzing by:

Buffer -cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page - cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16k, L1 D cache: 16k
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI Probing PCI hardware
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
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 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)

And then it stops.

I might also mention that I have tried booting into single user mode with grub but I still get suck at that part of the boot process. I was thinking that maybe I should disable apm by using rescue mode but I dont know how.. When I go into rescue mode I dont think im in root cause I cant find the proper directory and file in the /etc folder to disable it.. Maybe im doing something wrong. If anyone responds with any kind of fix please include detailed instructions of commands and whatnot as I'm not good with linux yet... my plan was to get into the GUI and begin learning but I have been stopped in my tracks. Thank you all for your time.

Try passing it the apm=off bootparam and see how it goes. If you edited your kernel cmdline to pass it the single option, I assume you probably know how to do this.

Thank you. That worked and I'm finally in linux. Now all I have to do is edit the grub config so that it does that automatically and ill be all set. Who need advanced power management anyway?

Good!

If your system doesn't support APM, it probably will work with ACPI. How old/new is it? When you get more familiar with linux, I recommend compiling a custom-configured ( apm off, acpi on ) kernel and running it.