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This is my first time installing RedHat Linux(Any Linux for that matter). The installer was great everything was running smoothly until I hit the "first boot". I get "starting First Boot message" and then my screen is blank. I am a complete newbie in Linux. Totally lost what should I do? I am on a Dell Optiplex 240 w/ a radeon 7000 video card, generic Monitor. I believe that I configure the settings correctly. Totally lost............. Please help
What does your partition setup look like? Do you have a large Windows partition at the "start" of the disk and then a Linux partition "behind" it?
I seem to remember that you need to force LBA for this setup to work - I've got a 30GB WinXP partition, and then a 10GB Linux partition (with swap) "behind" it - and I had to force LBA during the Linux install to get my system to boot.
Check the installer, you should find that there is an option during the installation of the bootloader (choose GRUB as bootloader, BTW!) that allows you to control "forcing" LBA during bootup - select this.
This should fix your problem - what you describes sounds exactly like what happens when you do not specify LBA during installation.
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