Red Hat Linux 7.3 booting issues
Hi guys.I'm a linux newbie and obviously im tryin to find or helpin myself to eliminate slowly the windows out of my way.LOL =)..anyway, i just installed my Red hat linux 7.3 in my HP pavilion laptop (a dual-boot with windows xp pro on my 1st partition). I did a successful installation of my red hat in the machine with a GRUB bootloader. The problem was it hanged as soon as i selected and boot the red hat linux smp and also the red hat linux (w/o smp).Im wondering what went wrong. here's my GRUB:
Grub version 0.91 (631K lower / 1046528K upper memory)
Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3smp)
Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.18-3)
Windows XP Pro
[Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.18-3smp)]
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3smp ro root=/dev/hde6 hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3smp.img
[Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.18-3)]
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hde6 hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
[Windows XP Pro]
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Then after many days of frustrations, i decided to re-install red hat and this time i used LILO. When i tried to select red hat linux in the bootloader a black screen loaded together with some initialization and detecting hardware configuration like CPUs, memory..etc..After a few seconds it hanged after this line:
...
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APID ID to 2 ... ok.
my laptop freeze to death and i don't know what to do now..can anyone help my problem so as i can start to learn linux?
and by the way this is my laptop specs:
HP Pavilion DV6000 series
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model MCP51M
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 72 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1607 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 72 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1607 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.36M1, 6/1/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
I highly appreciate anyone who could help me with this problem.
Thank you..
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