Redhat fails to boot!

[Sam Folk-Williams]

This could be a million things, but like Bob said -- try with a newer
distro first. I would go with FC4 because older FCs will be
end-of-life soon enough... If it doesn't work with a newer distro then
we could start to troubleshoot.

On 7/16/05, Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:02:09PM +0100, Christopher Malton wrote:
> > I have installed Redhat 9, but when the OS boots it says:
> >
> >
> >
> >     Press I to enter interactive startup.
> >
> > Configuring Kernel parameters.    [OK]
> >
> >
> >
> > And then stops!
> >
> >
> >
> > The keyboard stops responding and nothing works.  A reset produces the same
> > result.
> >
> >
> >
> > The PC is an AMD K6 processor with 160 MB of RAM.
> 
> How much swap space?  Should be about 320MB.
> 
> > It is trying to boot graphically.
> 
> That may be too tight a space to fit a GUI, at least GNOME or KDE.
> Have you tried to boot to a text prompt?  You can do that from the
> GRUB screen when it starts counting down to boot the default kernel.
> At that time hit "a" to append to the boot line, and then put a space
> and a "3", and hit return.  If that boots ok, your installation is ok,
> but too small for a fat GUI.
> 
> If it won't boot to text mode, check your memory.  Boot from the RH 9
> CD and put "memtest86" at the boot prompt.
> 
> If that's the machine you're stuck with, consider a lighter-weight
> window manager such as AfterStep (what I'm using):
> 
> http://www.afterstep.org/
> 
> AS has grown quite a bit over the years and may still be a struggle.
> I used to have 256MB and had to wait for apps to swap in and out.  Now
> I have 512MB and don't have to wait.  Lighter-weight WMs than AS
> include IceWM, BlackBox, and several others
> 
> http://www.icewm.org/
> http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
> 
> > Please help!
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris
> 
> All that said, must you run RH 9?  It was end-of-lifed a couple years
> ago.  You should be running Fedora Core 2, 3, or 4.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
> God doesn't have (or need) a Plan B.
> 
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