Hi, Hope you people can help. I've been using RedHat 6.0 on my machine for a while for some perl/web development work. Today I left my machine for a while and when I returned the screen was blank. I assumed the screensaver had kicked in but instead I could not get the screen to display anything. I also tried to reset the machine with ctrl-alt-delete but no luck. I was left with no option but to press the reset button. Now when my linux machine boots, it gets so far into the bootup sequence and then decides to reset itself (or hang) just after the hard disk partition check. I have tried to reinstall using the Redhat install disk, but this also hangs after launching itself. Any ideas of how to overcome this problem? Do you think it's hardware or software? I also have Windows 98 on the same harddisk (linux has one partition, win98 the other) and win 98 works fine. If possible I would like to keep the content on the disk, but I could reformat if really required (fortunately I made a backup yesterday) Below I have summarised the steps the boot process goes through before hanging or reseting if this helps: *machine starts to boot *detects hds, floppy, etc *measures checksum speed *does a scsi detect *md.c sizeof(mdp_super_t)=4096 *does partition check *autorun... *...autorun done *VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem readonly) *Freeing unused kernel memory:60K fixed (then reset or hang) Also I am running Redhat Linux 6.0 on an AMD K6-233, 64Mb RAM with 2.5Gb HD. As mentioned above, the machine has 1 hd with 2 partitions, and I use a boot floppy to boot into Linux (on partition /dev/hda5). I can provide more information if required. Thanks for your help. Ashley Mr. Ashley T. Howes Email: ashley_t_howes@dial.pipex.com Web: http://www.ydu09.dial.pipex.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness" [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

"Ashley T. Howes" wrote: [...]

Now when my linux machine boots, it gets so far into the bootup sequence and then decides to reset itself (or hang) just after the hard disk partition check. I have a similar wierdness occasionally (RH 5.2) where my machine reboots during a startup. It may be my imagination but it seems to happen when the machine is cold (ie. after a night off in a cold room). I use loadlin to boot from DOS so I just leave it on the DOS config.sys menu for a couple of minutes and then it seems to boot OK.

This is probably no help but I thought that I would mention it. Regards, Dermot PS I live in Mendham on the Suffolk/Norfolk border so Syleham suits me well for a meeting. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]