I found that on one machine; lilo worked where grub did not. I did not chase the problem down further although I should at some stage. Note that any boot partition should be in the first 8.4gb of the primary drive; there are bioses that claim to support >8.4gb extentions but don't correctly; so boots beyond 8.4gb fail mysteriously. If these machines are only r unning Linux; make sure grub/lilo are installed int he mbr; otherwise they should be installed in the first partiton boot sector of the linux primary partition. By the way; does making a boot disk for t he machines work during hte install? I found if I made a boot disk; the hard drive failed to boot so I used the boot disk. I then fixed lilo after the system was booted. Regards, Kerry. On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:47:41AM -0700, Jon Dowd wrote: > Hi List, > > I've downloaded and burned 2 sets of the RedHat 7.3 iso's and am having > trouble installing either of them (the results are same regardless of media > used). The installation seemingly proceeds fine until the first boot, at > which time the system will hang at the point where the message is displayed > "OK Now booting the kernel". The perplexing issue for me is that these discs > have installed successfully on two computers, but failed on three others. > The package choices are identical in all cases, as are all the choices > during the install. The failures have occurred on a Pentium 4, with two > 30gig HDDs, failed on a Pentium 3 with a 10gig and a 30gig HDD, failed on a > Pentium 60MHz with a 1gig HDD, succeeded on a K6 500 and a K6 550. What do > you think ? > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.377 / Virus Database: 211 - Release Date: 7/15/2002 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
