I bought a Acer Aspire 5004 NWLMI. Windows XP Professional is already installed. I downloaded the RHEL 4(AS) from a torrent site. I then burned the image to the cd using Nero 7. And when I boot the using the CD, the following things happen (the problem is the last thing)

1. 1. it show ISO Linux 2.xx and boots the system
2. after that the screen turns black the system stops responding…… There is no harddisk activity nor cd activity in the system.
3. 3. I chose the enter key
4. Loading initrd.img…………………..
5. - To Install or Upgrade in graphical mode, press enter key
6. loading /sbin/install
7. -……………
8. Please help
9. running installer
10. What should I do? I tried booting the system using linux dd, linux noprobe…. but the same result…
11. Three things to try. When you get to the boot screen press F2 or F3 for boot options. Try "linux text" or whatever the option is for no graphical installer.

    Two, go to Redhat.com and sign up for a trial as you'll need a license number to register your system and do updates.

    Three, go to http://www.centos.org and download an ISO there. CentOS is based on the Redhat EL family but is free for you to use. If the same thing happens with that use the text installer. GUI installers can be picky about certain video chipset/LCD combos. When your screen goes black it could just be the video going out of sync.

12. 5. Then it continues to the last stage saying
13. Then it detects all hardware and harddisk….(All the harddisk and the dvd drive is detected.)
14. 2. Then it show Redhat Enterprise Linux
15. 4. Then it says loading vmlinuz…………
16. loading /sbin/loader

Tags: embedded linux, linux kernel