Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze

Dale Dellutri wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:56:01 -0700, Robert Heiling <robheil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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'm trying to understand what you mean by "freezes".

Only what's normally meant by the term - the system is frozen or hung. There is
no HD activity and key depressions have no effect and aren't echoed on the
screen. Mouse movements do not result in movement of cursor if on a graphics
screen.

Have you
tried typing "root" at the prompt, and then use the password you set
up during the install?

You are joking I hope.

If you fresh installed RH9, then perhaps this is the normal login
prompt, waiting for you to login.

As above.

Also, I seem to remember that an "everything" install of RH9 gave some
users problems. Perhaps you should try a "Workstation" (I think it
was called) install.

I can recall that there was an obscure Asian font that caused problems with it
in the past and just that one font needed to be left out. That problem didn't
show up this time. Now I have re-installed with the simple personal computer
installation instead and that is now freezing on the Welcome screen and hasn't
even completed the setup.

It's been a long time since I installed a RH9 system, and I never did
an "Everything" install.

I'm trying various kernel parameters in grub in search of a solution. mem=128M
didn't help, so I'll try others.

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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