On 19-May-98 DGM wrote:
> I am trying to install Red hat 5.0 from the Boot diskette. When I press
> enter (or type expert and press enter) my system does the following:
>
> Boot: expert
> Loading initrd.img..........
> Loading vmlinuz...............
> Uncompressing linux
> Now booting the kernel
>
> Then the screen fills up with stuff (so fast that I cant read it) and the
> system reboots. I try pressing the PAUSE key to freeze the screen and see
> what it says but no luck.
>
> I can boot DOS-7 (win-95 in DOS mode) from floppy and see my red hat CD
> in
> the CD drive.
>
> 1) How can I see what is happening while the kernel is booting? Can I
> make
> it pause before re-booting so I can read whats on the screen?
> 2) Is there anything on the CD that I can use to try installing Linux
> after
> booting from DOS?
May not work, but go to the cdrom drive and type the following:
cd dosutils
autoboot
May work and may not since I can't be sure what's causing your system to
reboot.
> 3) Any suggestions as to how I should start troubleshooting this?
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