From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: When I want to install the Redhat 7.3, the Installer hangs ... getting a black screen. The system gets to "uncompressing kernel, booting linux "... and drops dead.... If I pass to the kernel text to install in a text mode, The screen don't become black, but it is frozen, and I have to power off. I have also tried to set the noathlon argument with no success. The probleme is also reproductible in the Redhat 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot CDROM 2. 3. Actual Results: The kernel hangs at boot Expected Results: Booting the kernel Additional info: Thw PC is a Packard Bell with a MSI motherboard (MS-6511). O
My PC is : Packard Bell Imedia - AMD Athlon 1.4GHz - Motherboard "Explorer" from Packard-Bell (MSI : MS-6511) - Chipset VIA KM133: VT8365A Northbridge (AGP,PCI) and VT686B Southbridge (IDE,USB) (BIOS recently upgraded) - ATIRadeonVE 32MB Onboard S3 Savage4 pro integreted video
I have read on newsgroup problems with KL133/KM133 motherboards who use the integrated on-board video that makes some problems with some kernels, a pacth has been, I think. Maybe it is the problem ?
If you think it's the video card you can do the following: type linux mem=xxxM on the syslinux prompt (very first screen) where xxx is the amount of memory you have (in megabytes) minus 32
I have the same problem on a NEC powermate VL3 AMD athlon 1.4 Ghz I tried with the on-board video chipset, and with a mattrox card, same problem the install work with a redhat 7.1