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When I try to install RedHat 7.1, the installation program freezes at the very beginning, i.e. directly after pressing Enter in the menu shown after booting from the CD. All I can see is a blue screen with a little black square in the bottom right corner. What's going on? I know I'm a newbie to Linux, but it seems quite impossible to screw something up even before the installation starts..
I'd appreciate any help I can get with this problem..
Hey u know what....i got the same thing loadin' Mandrake on and old pentium 2 way back when.....I never figured that out, I thought maybe mandrake didn't support the monitor that I was using at that time. I just ended up loadin' windoze back on it for my daughter to use....
doesn't anaconda run right after the blue screen? (that's a hardware probe thing isn't it - being a newbie I can't remember). Is it a hardware detection problem?
I guess a badly burnt CD could be causing the problem, but then that could be an answer to any of the problems when installing
The only thing I can suggest from here is check your hardware out with Redhat's compatibility charts. Have you tried any other type of distro or have you gotten any other older versions to run or is this the first time?
While installing the system uses several tty:s. Normaly you only see one of them. The one with the menus.
Try looking at the others, they show errors and commnds issued during install.
They can be found with <alt> + <f1> through <f4>
If you are running graphical install you have to use <ctrl> + <alt> + <fx> to get out the graphical screen.
i pressed <alt> + <f3> and found that the last thing that happens before freezing is "trying to mount device hdc". does that mean something's wrong with my hd?
hdc is your secondary master drive.
Does it give any error messages?
Post the last few lines (from tty3). This may help us to determine where it get's wring and maybe what is going wrong.
okie.. then hdc would be my cd-rom drive, a ricoh mp7083a cd burner.
the last lines would be:
* no pcic controller found
* probing buses
* finished bus probing
* found suggestion of agpgart
* found suggestion of 3c59x
* found 3c59x device
* found suggestion of usb-uhci
* found devices justProbe is 0
* going to insmod 3c59x.o (path is NULL)
* trying to mount hdc
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