installation problem

[Chakravarthi]

Hi,

i'm trying to install redhat 8 on a dell laptop,

installation is sucessful, but when i try to boot linux, it hangs at a place where it is suppose to probe harddisk and cdrom..

any inputs for slove this problem??

thanks
chakri

[Steven E. Protter]

So the system doesn't get to the boot loader at all?

It shoulds like the Red Hat 8 distribution is not compatible with the laptop, even though it installs.

Try Red Hat 9 and see if it has better support.

SEP

[Chakravarthi]

boot loader is fine, i get linux and windows options i select linux, it start booting and then hangs....

[Mark Grant]

Which boot loader do you use.

Lilo gives you an indication of where it has failed (number of letters of the word LILO it manages to print). Grub probably does the something similar.

[Chakravarthi]

GRUB

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,
the system hangs if you choose windows instead of linux?

Frank.

[Mark Grant]

It would seem GRUB reports an error number that corresponds to this list. Do you get an error number?

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Stage2-errors.html#Stage2%20errors

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Chakri,

if support by RedHat is not an issue, you may even want to go further than RedHat 9 and try Fedora.

JP

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Chakri,

I concurr with JP, Laptop hardware is often pretty specialized and picky, so a newer distro might really help. Also, do you have any "unusual" devices connected to the Laptop while booting (like parallel port or USD attached CD or floppy)?

Greetings, Martin

[Roberto Polli]

Did you try passing some parameters to kernel,
like acpi=off?
Maybe you have to suggest some hw info to it...

Peace, R.

[Chris Coston]

We had similiar problems installing on 1850R servers. You need to disable probing and the install will work.

Good luck.

[Chakravarthi]

what do you mean by probing,, how to disable it. i could install redhat 6.2 it works fine but not redhat 8

[Fred Ruffet]

Your system may need a specific driver for your drives : See on 6.2 what modules are loaded. And try to install 8 in text mode and specify load of equivalent modules.

Changing ditribution may also seem a good idea...