FIX (sort of): install setup screen freezes
I've got an HP 760n. It can not boot from CD, so I copied vmlinuz
and
initrd.img from isolinux into /boot and modified grub.conf.
During the boot the mouse, card and display are correctly
recognized.
The problem:
The mouse/keyboard/window freezes within the first couple of
install setup screens. The furthest I got was entering in
my ip address. The earliest freeze occurred when the mouse
(as a pointer, after its an 'X') first appears.
Any hints as to whats up?
The fix!!!! use the text mode installer, not the X-gui.
No freezing, installed fedora 2.
Rebooted machine after install.
First thing it does is puts you into a X-gui based set of windows
requiring that you add a user, etc. There is NO way to do this
in text-mode. It also starts you at run-level 5.
So now the system freezes having spent 1 hour installing it, thinking
I was cleaver because I avoided using the X-gui based install setup
screens only to find that the first boot puts one right back into
the X-gui setup system and it freezes.
Curiously, if I then turn off the machine a try again (having no
completed the initial boot setup), it starts but hangs after
printing the message:
Enable Swap space
If the turn off the machine and try again, it puts me into the X-gui
setup system, and so on; each reboot alternates between the X-gui
setup that freezes and the system hanging after printing the swap message.
So, I can install fedora 2, I just can not get past the first reboot.
My solution, re-install redhat 9.
Richard