On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 18:22, Scott Alexander wrote:
No, I hadn't heard about that. Is the basic plan that I would need to do a re-install, and when it comes to the first prompt, instead of just typing linux and hitting enter, type linux noathlon? Thanks, Scott On 12 Apr 2003 17:52:11 -0400 Simon Bassett <sbassett@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have you tried passing the noathlon argument at install??? I have > heard that some systems will have trouble some of the athlon-specific > optimizations. > > > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 17:12, Scott Alexander wrote: > > > I just tried installing 9 on my home system, The install went fine > > and finished. At this point, I rebooted the system and it hung when > > it reached init version 2.84. This is right before it prints the > > redhat linux message, and then goes on to start the services for the > > box. > > > > I'm not sure what is happening here, or how to fix it. Or even how > > to trouble shoot it to find the problem. > > > > Since this is my personal desktop, I tried rolling back to 8 to see > > if that would work. I hit the same problem with 8 as i did with 9. > > > > The system is a gateway select with a 1gig athlon that is a few > > years old. 384 megs of ram in it. Previously redhat 7.2 was running > > fine on the system. I did a clean install to go to 9 and chose not > > to do the upgrade. > > > > Is this possibly something that is from the hardware being 3 years > > old almost? This is an original slot A athlon that I bought right > > after they came out. > > > > Thanks for any help or ideas in getting this system to boot. > > > > > > > > -- > > Scott Alexander > > Simon P Bassett > (717)938-2262 > sbassett@xxxxxxxx > -- Scott Alexander System Administrator Musician's Friend Cell: (541) 840-0763 email: scotta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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