RHEL 5 continuously reboots after installing on Dell Optiplex 755
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RHEL 5 continuously reboots after installing on Dell Optiplex 755
I just recently tried to install RHEL 5 on a Dell Optiplex 755. After completing the installation procedure the system attempted to reboot to enter into the OS for the first time. However, during the bootup sequence the system will automatically reboot every time. There does not seem to be a consistent time or particular element of the boot process that causes the system to reboot, but it does it every time. I've tried installing 5.1, 5.2, and 5.2 beta and they all do the same thing. I've also messed with just about every possible setting in the BIOS and nothing seems to work.
Yes, the system can boot from a CD. Since the last post I have installed Ubuntu to see if that would work (to see if this was maybe just bad hardware) and Ubuntu installed correctly. This is a 32-bit system and I am installing the 32 bit version of Red Hat.
Boot into a liveCD. Mount your RHEL / partition on a directory. Edit /etc/inittab on your RHEL / partition. If the inittab deffault level is set to 6 then change the line:
Ok, so a quick update. I tried setting the default runlevel to 3 and I am able to boot using that. Obviously I have stripped down functionality, but maybe this is a clue of something that is causing the problem?
I'm not really sure. I haven't given it a shot. For now it seems as though I can do everything I need to in init level 3 with the command line so that's what I think I'm going to go with and hope that a future kernel update will fix this issue.
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