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  1. #1
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    Question RH8 Installs fine, but won't boot

    Installed, and re-installed. Tried grub and lilo. Same behavior always during bootup. I get as far as 'Freeing unused kernel memory', and then it just hangs and I have to power down.

    I'm installing on second hard drive (first has W2K, which now boots much slower all of a sudden too).

    Any ideas?
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    Hrmmm..... I forget my actual order of kernel booting stuff..... Does it get to the init processes and mounting the root filesystem? If not, you might have some screwy issues with block devices support.
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    no I don't think it gets there. I have been surfing google groups all day and some people say problems with finding 'init', but no proposed solution has made a difference to me yet. gah.
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    I take it back, it does report that it mounts local filesystems just before the ''Freeing unused kernel memory' line. Then it hangs.
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    I'm getting all sorts of problems too, but different ones. I can't even get the thing to install correctly on SMB (dual) systems. It even tells me that there's a bug in it and to save the error to disk and send it to Red Hat's Bugzilla.

    This sucks. I'm going back to 7.3.

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    I got problem with RH8.0 too. It hangs whenever I log out.

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    Can't comment on anyone else's issues, but looks like RH8 just won't work on my machine:

    http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/.../msg75281.html

    Dude. I'm getting a Dell.
    John Masterson
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    try to pass a mem statement at bootup. hit control x to get to a # and pass this statement:
    linux mem= amt of ram - amt. of video ram so if you have this
    linux mem = 512M- 16M = 496M you would try this command:

    linux mem=496M

    see if that does it, good luck

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