linux redhat 9 stops booting 1

[Faheemi]

Hi there friends,

I am very new to linux. I have just successfully installed the linux OS redhat 9. When the first time I rebooted the system, the system is not booting up. It halts or hangs at the following:

Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 flags 0x03 (driver version 1.16)

Please help me shed some lights on this issue to solve the problem.

Thanks a lot.

Hameed

 

[fluid11]

When the system doesn't boot, you can try booting into runlevel 1 or single user mode. When the GRUB prompt appears, type 'e' to edit the line that starts with &quot;kernel&quot;. Move to the end of the line and type <space>s. The line will look something like this after you edit it...

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-9 ro root=LABEL=/ s

Type <enter> and then 'b' to boot from the modified GRUB stanza.

Examine the output of &quot;dmesg | less&quot; for error messages. Also look at &quot;less /var/log/messages&quot; and &quot;less /var/log/boot.log&quot;.

Since the last thing you saw was &quot;apm...&quot;, try disabling apm by typing &quot;chkconfig apm off&quot;.



ChrisP
RHCE, LPIC-1, CCNA, CNE, MCSE, +10 others

 

[Faheemi]

Hi there,

I tried the following when I boot up the linux.

Added to the kernal parameters the following:

apm=off

Finally I was able to login smoothly.

I understand that we can also use apm=idle_threshold=100

got this trick from

http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/19530.html

I will try your method also. Actually I do not understand the meaning of the above parameter. I need to learn latter.

Hameed

 

[MorpheusNL]

APM = Advanced Power Management

It's very unuseful with server but with normal Workstations it can save some energy by turning off stuff when it's not used (like HD/Monitor etc)

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Maurits

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[Faheemi]

Thanks a lot Maurits for your explanation and kindness.

Hameed