Hi Friends,

My System stops while booting Linux at the following message

"Checking Kernel parameters."

SOS:
My System: P III, 810 Chipset MotherBoard, 20 GB HDD Seagate barracuda(Now, another 80 GB added) Redhat 7.2

Detailed Description:
10 days ago, I added 80 GB Seagate barracuda Hard Disk and DLink Internal Modem 56 Kbps.

From the next day, X (I mean GNome/KDE) would not startup.
& From Yesterday,

"Loading DMI Data" the one we get prior to Dual Boot Prompt took nearly 10 seconds,
& then Linux did not load at all.

It gave OK at the message "Configuring Kernel parameters. "
& then did did not go ahead.
All my key strokes were displayed on screen.

Help me.

Yesterday Night, I tried booting with Linux Boot Floppy.
EVen that stops at the above said point.

I'm getting the exact same error. I've been googling for answers for DAYS Could someone please help us!

is it a scsi drive that u added ????

Check if u kernel was configured with scsi support...

I dunno wether the following would work but give it a shot
check if ur /boot/grub/grub.conf has --- > the kernel parameter --> ide-scsi passed to it..


title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

Thanks UsualTuxpect,

Actually I overcame this error.
Don't laugh at my naivety.

All I did was booted the System with Linux Boot CD.
I proceeded until Partitioning and quitted there.

Now, the system is working fine, Except that Startx will not work.

No, Mine is not a SCSI drive.

I had this problem with a fresh RH 7.3 installation. I had the machine syncing to an NTP server to have the clock set to network time. I had also enabled auto power-on in the Mother board BIOS
That's when it would halt.
I got it to run again after I disabled the auto power-on.

After I removed the NTP clock syncing the machine started fine (even with the BIOS again set to power-on).
Now I just use ntpdate out to the time server once a day to keep time sync'd.
Hope this helps.