THANKS MATT!!!! I'm forever in your debt (well lets just say until the arbitrarily chosen date of next Tuesday)...
"linux apm=off" did the trick. I had no idea what was wrong, and I have found other posts online of other people with the same problem who did not get an answer. I guess it was power management all along. I tried to disable it in the BIOS, but that wasn't enough. Linux had to give it up too. It seems I remember the latest version of Mandrake (gasp!; forgive me for mentioning this on a RedHat list) wouldn't boot either with the same problem; however Redhat 7.3 was fine. Seems they used an older kernel than Mandrake. Anyway, I have an AMD Athlon 1Ghz on a Kadoka motherboard all assembled by the fine folks at Gateway 2 years ago. Now my machine has RedHat 8 and I am happy as a mouse in a room full of cheese. Thanks, Brandon Ryan --------------------------------------------------------- Webmaster, ATU Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship <http://www.atumbsf.org/> Webmaster, National Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship <http://www.mbsf.net/> Computer Science Junior, Arkansas Tech University <http://members.tripod.com/psikic72801/> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:34:43 -0400 >What kind of machine? Try 'linux noapic' 'linux pic' 'linux apm=off' > >Does the numlock key work when it hangs? If not, try >'linux vga=extended nmi_watchdog=1'. That should dump where the >kernel is when it hangs. > >Cheers, > >Matt > >On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:47:34PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just put RedHat 8.0 on my system and it will not boot all the >> way. On every attempt it always freezes at the same point when: INIT: version 2.84 booting .... [snip] ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.atu.edu
