I am trying to help a friend who has a 3-in-one system - Win98se,
WinXP and Red Hat Linux 2.4.7-10 installed. ( I assume it is Red Hat
Linux 7.0) He also has Norton Sytem Commander installed so that I have
to choose Linux when starting it. The other 2 systems win98se and
WinXP are running OK. Only the Linux system has problem starting. When
loading the Linuz system, I see the KDE menu shows the keyboard and
mouse icons blinking .......seemingly unable to load the 2 device
drivers. A few seconds later the screen just shows everything in blue
and hangs. I have tried restarting Linux a few times to let it detect
all the hardware devices.....and perform systems check
integrity.....and everything went smooothly with all the OK signs
except for a USB device that failed. What is wrong with this Red Hat
7.0? Is it corrupted? What shall I do?
Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Ben

Tsun Szu wrote:

> I am trying to help a friend who has a 3-in-one system - Win98se,
> WinXP and Red Hat Linux 2.4.7-10 installed. ( I assume it is Red Hat
> Linux 7.0) He also has Norton Sytem Commander installed so that I have
> to choose Linux when starting it. The other 2 systems win98se and
> WinXP are running OK. Only the Linux system has problem starting. When
> loading the Linuz system, I see the KDE menu shows the keyboard and
> mouse icons blinking .......seemingly unable to load the 2 device
> drivers. A few seconds later the screen just shows everything in blue
> and hangs. I have tried restarting Linux a few times to let it detect
> all the hardware devices.....and perform systems check
> integrity.....and everything went smooothly with all the OK signs
> except for a USB device that failed. What is wrong with this Red Hat
> 7.0? Is it corrupted? What shall I do?
> Any help appreciated.

First, he *really* needs to update to 7.3 at least. 7.0 should have been
strangled with its own umbilical cord at birth, it was so bad.

Can he boot into single user mode? And has he made any kernel or
hardware changes lately?