I am starting to repeat myself a little bit but that is because i have become desperate. I installed redhat9 on my laptop. When i booted it up the screen began scrolling very quickly. Apparently this is supposed to happen. Unfortunately mine will not stop scrolling. It is moving very fast though i don't think there are any error messages.

I have got to my desktop(Gnome) once by pressing I at startup to enter interactive startup. While on my desktop i opened the command shell and tryed changing the run level from 5 to 3 (someones advice) but unfortunately this made no difference. Every time i reboot it starts scrolling uncontrollably.

I have reinstalled a lot of times.

Are there any options i could pass to the kernel when installing in text mode.
I have tried putting "single" after kernel at login screen.

I have gone into rescue with my installation cd and typed "startx" but i got fatal server error messages.

I hope i have explained the problem clearly. I am in dire need of help with this.

Thankyou.

Try switching to Slackware. It's not as hard as people make it out to be and I've had less problems using it than when I was using Red Hat 9. Another thing: can you get to a command line prompt at all? If so, login, type 'dmesg' and post the output of that to here. Together, we'll get Linux working for you!

Does it fill your screen with some sort of warning/error message?
I'm guessing it's some sort of service starting at your default runlevel causing this.

Try making this change to your /etc/inittab as root (when you're in single mode).

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

Replace the 5 with a 3, to change the default runlevel to 3 instead of 5.

I have tried that but it did no good. Thanks anyway.

Could you give us some of the text that outputs on your screen?
It would surely help alot!

I was told to try the command 'dmesg' earlier and it came out something like this:
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00004ce0365dc1a6] [Linux OHCI-1394]
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adaptor emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
lp driver loaded but no devices found
sis900.c
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0 realtek rtl8201 phy transceiver found at address 1
eth0: using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: sis 900 pci fast ethernet at 0x1800, irq 4, 00:30:13:5d:c1:a6.

When the screen is scrolling it looks something like this:
[<c018cded>]csi_J [kernel] 0x69 (0xcdeda176)