Me Too!

spyder6683 · #1 August 8th, 2007, 07:45 PM

I also am having this issue! I have tried installing on two different machines, one with different hard drives, still the same problem... PLEASE HELP!

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Originally Posted by Elite

I have a problem booting to Linux...

When I install Linux, it goes through just fine, I have no problems with the Installation, and when it is finished it says install complete.

But when It restarts my computer and it starts to boot back up it does not boot into Linux all I get is a capital L with a blinking cursor next to it and it does nothing: L_ <---- thats all I get.

I have tried the installation 4 times and they all go in successful but never boots up.
I use LILO as the boot loader
I am in school for this and when I install it there it goes in just fine, but when I try it at home it does not go through
The first time I manually partitioned it withthe Disk Druid
And once I let it do it for me automatically and both times it installed fine
Is ther any reason why? Is ther something that I am doing wrong??
Yeah you can tell im new hear I could have edit my post instead of putting a new one ahhh lol

Thanks

jmtjet · #2 August 9th, 2007, 02:17 PM

Which distro are you attempting to install? All of the newer distros have improved installers and most use GRUB as the boot loader.

spyder6683 · #3 August 9th, 2007, 06:22 PM

It is red had linux 7.0 I bought it off of ebay.. I have tried to download it and have often times become confused, so I decided to buy it.. Im a windows guy...but I need a linux/apache server for the intranet..

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Originally Posted by jmtjet

Which distro are you attempting to install? All of the newer distros have improved installers and most use GRUB as the boot loader.

**kage** · #4 August 10th, 2007, 03:07 AM

Red Hat 9 is old, Red Hat 7 is ancient! How old is the computer in question? If it was built after 1998, I would say scrap RH7 and download Ubuntu.Ubuntu is also free, you do not have to pay for it, and if your internet connection is too slow you can order a free install disk and have it shipped to you for free!

spyder6683 · #5 August 10th, 2007, 02:34 PM

Wow, that was easy! I downloaded it and installed it, go figure! I was wondering, if there was a way to have a gui for the LAMP server..any ideas? See what I need to have in the end is an intranet web server, so I can "remotely" test scripts within the office, that I develop instead of doing it on my local computer so I can test on a linux box, and a mac. Any help would be appreciated.