From: "Joe Brenner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tyrone Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm only a newbie in Redhat and I installed version 7.2 after the the > > installation the system will reboot. After rebooting and I saw some files > > being loaded ..then my monitor went to dark and I've been stuck there, my > > friend told me to re-install it and I tried it over and over again to no > > avail can someone pls. help me about this > > Try it one more time, and take detailed notes on all the > choices you make and the behavior of the machine, and get > back to us about it. Be sure to tell us everything you know > about your machine (intel architecture? What processor(s)? > What motherboard/bios? and so on).
Probably far more importing is the video card and monitor and whether he's booted to graphics mode or text mode. I typically use text mode since it leaves less room for error. You can always start up X once you've signed on in text mode. > As a shot in the dark: The installation proceedure asks you > if you want to use the graphical or the text based > installer. Try the text-based one. Another shot in the > dark: it offers you a choise of boot-loaders, grub (I think) > and the older "lilo": try "lilo". I suspect it's better > tested and works on a wider variety of machines. Bogus. Grub is solid and has been shipped by Mandrake for a while. It works. > (My experience with installing: first time I tried > graphical/grub, it acted like it installed, but it > evidentally didn't put anything on the hard disk. "Evidentally"?. Do a ls /boot/grub and verify it. > Oh, and I've heard it suggested that you should stay away > from Ext3... evidentally some people are reporting data > corruption problems with it. And many, many more people are reporting that it's working fine. Me included. > (Redhat has a history of shipping with stuff that isn't > really ready for prime time. This is one page they've taken > from Microsoft's marketing: they like to advertise > "features", even if they really need more work.) Of course evidence of this would be too much to ask and irrelevant to this thread anyway. Red Hat has a better track record than a lot of vendors. They've screwed up here and there, but overall 7.2 is fairly solid with the latest patches. .../Ed Ed Wilts Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list