Shawn, In the loads I have done, this might be a problem with the screen or like someone else said the sound or other cards. By doing the text and even a custom install you can put in the proper name for the cards and monitor. It could be reading them wrong. Also, if you have it set up for 1024x768, knock it down a notch or 2. The adapter card is critical for this, also. Even if you have it close, it may not come up. If your're using RH9 it should have picked it up. Try the boot off of the floppy or a backup disk and go in and look at the terminfo dirs and all. Also, check the color setting. I had problems from RH5 - 8 with having to do the text and even custom until I got the cards and monitor right. You can test it in the install for the right one. I have had to do this on my old HP Pentium, no number 233MHz mahine as well as my Compaq 1700T laptop. Thanks, Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn" <sfertch at real-time.com> To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:51 PM Subject: [TCLUG] Linux won't load.... > Alright, I'm out of ideas. I cannot get Linux to load on my desktop! I'm sick of Windows, and want my Linux desktop back!!!! > I've tried RH9, Slack9, Mandrake 9.2. All to no avail. I can get it installed with no errors, warnings or messages. Reboot, lilo comes up. Select Linux, and it starts to load, then chokes almost right after the "loading linux" so I can't see what/where it exactly fails. Screen goes blank, HDD spins a little and then nothing. I have to do a hard reset or power it off to reboot. At first I tried dual booting, Windows would come up okay. Then I tried only Slack, and it chokes the same. > > Heres the system: > > MSI 845PE Max Mainboard > P4 2.53 GHz > 1 Gig DDR Ram (don't recall speed) > 40 Gig Maxtor EIDE HDD (did also at one point have an 80GB WD w/ 8MB cache) > GeForce 4 ti4200 (dual output card) > SB Live 5.1 sound card > Linksys 10/100 NIC > > Any ideas? I'm drawing a blank on what else to do. I'm going thru withdrawals, without my fvwm2 and Slack fix I'm being dummified with Windows... > > -- > Shawn > > The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. > > Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list