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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:13:10 -0500 Kevin Connolly at Mindspring wrote: > I just talked a friend of mine into Linux (FC3). He loaded it up
on a Gateway > G4 400Mhz fairly stock box w/ a 10G drive.
When it starts up it hangs on > "Configuring Kernel Parameters". Anyone have any ideas
on how to correct it? I have just suffered from the same problem on a similar old Gateway PII
300-MHz box with a RIVA128 Graphics Card. A friend advised me to remove the Red
Hat Graphical Boot (rhgb) option on start up – this cures the problem and
allows the system to boot. Unfortunately the X Server can’t start so I
assume the RIVA128 card isn’t supported (I’ll solve that separately)
but at least I can log in now. I removed the rhgb setting by hitting <enter> as grub is booting,
selecting the Linux kernel I want to boot, hitting <a> to amend the entry,
deleting “rhgb” from the boot command and letting it continue. I
then removed the same entry in /etc/grub.conf when I could login. I hope this helps someone else. Ian. P.S. Thanks to CGB for the advice. |