Re: Redhat 9 Hang on Boot

[asko mursel <askomursel yahoo com>]

What are the minimum hardware requirements for Red Hat
9.0?
Thanks in advance
Asmir 
--- Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:
> Dean Axene wrote:
> >>Can you give us more details?  We need the mobo
> type, CPU type, SMP/UP
> >>status, RAM, etc.
> >>Rick,
> > 
> > 
> > My motherboard is a Socket A, model GA-71XE4 with
> an AMD Athlon processor
> > and an AMD chipset. I have 192 MB ram. I have 2
> hard drives, 2 cdrom drives
> > and 1 floppy. My setup is dual boot with Win 94SE
> and all windows programs
> > and data on /dev/hda. /dev/hdb is solely linux. I
> have 7.3 on one hard drive
> > and 9 on another separate drive. During this check
> out period, I am swapping
> > drives so that I can either use 7.3 or work on
> debugging 9.0. There is
> > plenty of free space on all 3 drives. I'm not sure
> of the clock speed, but I
> > think it is either 2.1 or 2.4 GHz. I'm afraid I
> don't understand what SMP/UP
> > is.
> 
> The most common problem with Athlons is the BIOS
> doing a bad job
> programming the APIC.  This is most prevalent on
> Asus mobos.  The way
> to get around it is to add the "noapic" keyword to
> the boot line:
> 
> 	boot: linux noapic
> 
> Sometimes the problem is also caused by USB devices
> on the bus.  Get
> around that one by unplugging unnecessary devices or
> by adding "nousb"
> to the command line:
> 
> 	boot: linux nousb
> 
> If you need both options, include them on the
> command line by separating
> them with a space:
> 
> 	boot: linux noapic nousb
> 
> Give that a whirl and let us know what happens.
>
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