Hello all,
I'm new to Linux, hence my post. :)
I'm retro-fitting some legacy PCs to serve as syslog servers at some of my offices. I'm using HighPoint Technology Rocket 133 ATA/133 controller cards to get around the 8 GB BIOS limit (AMI BIOS 2.0 on a Microstar MS-6117 board). I follow the directions for the RH install from HighPoint and all goes fine until I reboot. It pauses for about 5 minutes saying GRUB Loading stage2..., then the screen goes black for another 5 minutes before finally leaving me at a grub> prompt. I had selected graphical startup during the install. HighPoint is looking into it, but can any of you shed some light on this? Their upgrade instructions talk about editing either the lilo.conf or grub.conf files...I'm wondering if I don't need to do this also. I'm guessing that if I know the proper commands to issue at the grub> prompt I could get the system to boot, but I'm WAY too new to Linux to even hazard a guess. It seems that I'd need to use an initrd file that would support the ext3 file system at the very least (I've taken a few swings at loading the kernel with a root option but I always end up with some cryptic kernel panic message about the file system, a halted system, and a blinking keyboard).
I was able do this install on a different system with an Intel board and Phoenix BIOS, so it may be a BIOS issue between the card and AMI BIOS. Doesn't matter whether I use RH8.0 or 7.3, both result in the same behavior.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Stuart
