Install hangs at first boot

[Kerry Hoath]

I found that on one machine; lilo worked where grub did not.
I did not chase the problem down further although I should at some stage.
Note that any boot partition should be in the first 8.4gb of the
primary drive; there are bioses that claim to support >8.4gb
extentions but don't correctly; so boots beyond 8.4gb fail
mysteriously.
If these machines are only r unning Linux; make sure grub/lilo are installed
int he mbr; otherwise they should be installed
in the first partiton boot sector of the linux primary partition.
By the way; does making a boot disk for t he machines work during hte install?
I found if I made a boot disk; the hard drive failed to boot
so I used the boot disk. I then fixed lilo
after the system was booted.

Regards, Kerry.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:47:41AM -0700, Jon Dowd wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I've downloaded and burned 2 sets of the RedHat 7.3 iso's and am having
> trouble installing either of them (the results are same regardless of media
> used). The installation seemingly proceeds fine until the first boot, at
> which time the system will hang at the point where the message is displayed
> "OK Now booting the kernel". The perplexing issue for me is that these discs
> have installed successfully on two computers, but failed on three others.
> The package choices are identical in all cases, as are all the choices
> during the install. The failures have occurred on a Pentium 4, with two
> 30gig HDDs, failed on a Pentium 3 with a 10gig and a 30gig HDD, failed on a
> Pentium 60MHz with a 1gig HDD, succeeded on a K6 500 and a K6 550. What do
> you think ?
> 
> 
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