Request for FAQ Entry


Requester: Ron Kupper
Email: rkupper@iucf.indiana.edu
Web Page: http://www.
Date Requested: Fri, Mar 6, 1998
Status: New Entry

Releases: 4.2
Platform: all
Category:  Installing Issues
Category Listing:  boot crashes at monitor color or b/w

Issue

I have a western digital 400 Meg hard drive, 486DX AMD 33Mhz CPU, 8meg of 
ram,IDE (ATAPI) CDROM trying to boot REDHAT 4.2 This computer is (or 
will be dedicated for linux only NO OTHER OPERATING SYSTEM. I can 
only get it to boot to where it ask's be if I have color or B/W 
monitor and when I answer it crashes. My hard drive is blank and 
formated from DOS. Please can someone help me. Thanks