I am trying to install Redhat 6.1 on a 500mgh PIII. I have 128mb ram, a 12gb hd and an ATI Rage IIC w/8mb ram. I have a Lucent modem and a headache. I have been trying to install Redhat at least 15 times in the past 2 weeks. I tryed booting and installing of the CD. I have downloaded boot-RHEA-1999_044.img and updates-RHEA-1999_045.img. I used rawrite to make a boot image with boot-RHEA-1999_044.img and tried booting up with the floppy disk. Well, no matter what I do I get the same results. The system starts to boot. The screen comes up and gives me the option to use one of the F keys to Expert, Kickstart, etc. I hit enter and the kernel starts to load. When the boot process gets to the run /sbin/loader the stalls, the monitor goes into standby. After a moment or two the monitor power light turns green again but the display is still blank. Sometimes it will switch back and forth between standby and normal. Either way it goes back to a steady state of the monitor in standby for at least a minute and then starts to reboot. At this point I can let it try to boot again and go through the whole process again or I can tell it to stop trying to boot off of the CD or floppy and go back to C: drive only and load Win98. By the way, I have partitioned my drive into two 6gb partitions. One for 98 and the other for Linux. The Linux partition is, of course, still unformated. I have installed Redhat Linux 5.2 on several machines in the past with no unusual problems and thought I would try 6.1. I must admit I am stumped. Can you help me?
Could this be a duplicate of bug #6926?Could this be a duplicate of bug #6926?
Assigned to jturner
Can you use text mode installation? Sounds like there is a problem with the GUI installation running on your video card.
Closing this bug due to lack of activity.