RE: Install Boot Hangs

[David Nelson <David Nelson motion-ind com>]

Jeremy,

I installed redHat and WinXP from a wiped disk.  From what I remember, first
I rescued WinXP which could not find itself(i'm winging it with exact terms)
so it reinstalled itself.  Ok, then I took Partition magic and allocated 8GB
as ext2.  Then I deleted thge partition. Partition Magic will leave the
space "unallocated".  That's the way the space is listed in the disc view.

Then I popped RedHat in and did a clean install.  See the Thread "Install
freezing up for Redhat 8.0" to get some really good detailed advice.

Just My experience.  Hope it helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Weber, Jeremy [mailto:JWeber Eventra com]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:29 AM
To: 'redhat-install-list redhat com'
Subject: RE: Install Boot Hangs




Jeremy Weber                    
Eventra, Inc.                       
SCM Specialist
203-882-9988 x2631
jweber eventra com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:54 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Install Boot Hangs


On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:44:46AM -0500, Weber, Jeremy wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:18 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Install Boot Hangs
> 
> <snip> 
> Well, the real question is whether it's the USB hanging things, or was
> it OK and the next step is where it's hanging.  Perhaps you could go
> into the BIOS and disable the USB just to assure it's not the culprit.
> While you're in there, it wouldn't hurt to turn off APM, too.
> 
> The only other show-stopper I know of is if you don't have any
> unallocated (that is, unpartitioned) space available for Linux.
> 
> How far do we get, now?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr. 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 
> BIOS has no options to disable anything.  Simply boot order, of which its
> going CD, HDD, Floppy and really thats about it. 
> I have deleted all the partitions from the disk and still the same thing.
> Before I did that I had a ext2 partition and a swap partition.
> In what state should the hard disk be in before I start the installation.

In the best of all worlds, unpartitioned.

> Arggghhh....:(

Hmm.  I'm about out of stories.  Anyone else want a shot at this?

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
Peace at any price is inflationary.


Oh jeez, thats not good.   Thanks for you help anyway.  I dont know if this
helps me, but I have a peanut linux cd around.  I can boot off of that and
then mount the RedHat CD....?  Cant I possibly kick off the install from
there?  




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