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
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