7.2 and 9.0 freeze

I recently rescued a 1995-vintage pentium 233 from the back corner of my garage
and returned the borrowed hardware to it - floppy, HD's 8.4GB, 6.4GB, & 1.6GB.
FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed
RH7.2. It seemed to be running Ok, but there was a problem when it was left
unattended. I think the screen saver was taking effect and I'd find it frozen
with a blank screen. Space bar and/or mouse movement would not get it to come
back to life.

So I fresh installed RH9.0 (everything) and it now freezes at the text "login:"
prompt. This looks familiar, but I can't remember the problem.

I've run memtest86 for a day and there were zero errors. Win98 has been
installed on hdb-6.4GB (the 1.6GB is setup as linux swap) now and it runs
without any problems, so I doubt that the freezing is any sort of hardware
problem.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Bob
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