Can't install RH Enterprise 3 desktop; white screen lockup

Phil O lotsofunthatsme at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 29 02:03:03 UTC 2004


ARRRGGGHHH!!!  This is driving me nuts!!!  Ok, here's
what has happened.  What I decided to do was to
restore my Acronis True Image backup of my drive to
only 20GB of the (actual) 27.5GB drive, and leave the
rest for Red Hat.  I performed the "linux text"
install, to get ALMOST  finished, and I still have
this *#&$@)#$@ lockup issue at startup.  Here's what
happens:

1.  From Grub, I pick the Red Hat selection.
2.  Program appeared to go into graphical mode, but
locked up as I moved the mouse.
3.  Subsequent attempts at startup give me this "Your
system appears to shut down uncleanly", then goes
through what appears to be its boot process, and the
screen does nothing after the following appears:

Enabling Swap Space   (OK)

All items at bootup show up as OK.  The memory has
been tested, and shows no errors.  I'm at my wits' end
here; this close, and so far...

This IS an ATI Radeon 9600 AIW; I'm wondering if it's
having problems talking to the vid card.  What next,
folks?  I'm so POd at this point that I'm about to
wipe her and go back to XP by itself again.  This work
today has given me a pounding headache...


	
		
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