Red Hat 7.2 install problem

[Mears]

Ok, went through the install and everything seemed fine. I'm using WinXP as well and installed GRUB to the beginning
of the Linux drive and not on the MBR. After the install I made the boot disk and restarted. However, the boot disk
would hang after loading vm.linuz. I figured that it was probabaly just a bad floppy, so I tried entering rescue mode off
of the Linux cd. I copied the boot sector and put it on a floppy and booted into windows. I copied the boot sector and
updated my boot.ini accordingly. I restarted and then loaded Grub using the NT boot loader. I then preceeded to load
up Linux. However, it didn't bring up the graphical login like I had selected. That was Weird so I just logged in and
loaded up X. It then gave my computer some weird name when given the choice of GUIs and produced an error
messsage when I loaded up GNOME. Does anyone know what these problems could be caused from? I thought that I
might have made some coasters with the install disks, since a disk I made that same night also had some errors on it
even though it said it was completed successfully. What do you guys think?

 

[Koeppster]

<< It then gave my computer some weird name when given the choice of GUIs and produced an error >>



I followed you up to this point. You'll have to explain "some weird name" and "produced an error" in considerably more detail before I can help. 🙂

Check /etc/inittab to see what your default runlevel is. If it's 3 (multi-user, text mode), and you want to boot into X, change initdefault from 3 to 5.