Not that desparate yet. Just found hope!
Robert Snyder wrote:
> Have you tried going out getting a pair a steal toe boots and just
> kicking the ever living daylight out of it, to make it boot.
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> Veit Schopper wrote:
>
>> hiho,
>> did you try to boot with knoppix (livecd)? it has a kernel, which
>> boot on the most hardware and maybe you will see some interresting
>> kernel messages. /*veit*/
>>
>> Am Mittwoch 16 März 2005 23:34 schrieb Glenn Meyer:
>>
>>
>>> Thank you for your reply!
>>>
>>> I shut down everything in the BIOS that had an option to do so. Still
>>> wouldn't boot. Left all turned off. In the Grub GUI, I added vga=none
>>> 3 so the line reads....
>>>
>>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.EL ro root=LABEL=/ vga=none 3
>>>
>>> then hit enter to accept the modification and "b" to boot. It only
>>> gets
>>> a few lines and says...
>>> Booting command-list
>>> root (hd0,1)
>>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.EL ro root=LABEL=/ vga=none 3
>>> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x12f50a]
>>>
>>> Error 23: Error while parsing number
>>>
>>> Press any key to continue... (when I do it goes quickly back to Grub)
>>>
>>>
>>> For partitions, I had created
>>> swap (512MB)
>>> /boot (100MB ext3)
>>> / (8+MB ext3)
>>>
>>>
>>> Any other thoughts? I'm open to options (nothing to lose yet) and do
>>> appreciate your help! Thank you!
>>>
>>> Kwan Lowe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Glenn Meyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have a Compaq Armada M700 (laptop) that I am installing Red Hat WS
>>>>> 3.0 on. The install goes very smoothly until the reboot. Very early
>>>>> in the boot process, the system hangs every time immediately
>>>>> following....
>>>>>
>>>>> "Total HugeTLB memory allocation, 0"
>>>>>
>>>>> Googling hasn't produced anything I can comprehend. I find nothing
>>>>> on Red Hat's site. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have you checked this site:
>>>> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/compaq.html
>>>>
>>>> The quirks seem mostly related to video. Try booting in runlevel 3. At
>>>> the boot prompt you'd add:
>>>> vga=none 3
>>>>
>>>> Do this at the end of whatever kernel is your default. It's probably
>>>> GRUB running, so at the GRUB screen select the kernel line, 'e' to
>>>> edit, add the above, press Enter, then 'b' to boot it.
>>>>
>>>> If this works try looking at video settings.
>>>>
>>>> If you still have a problem, drop into the BIOS and start turning off
>>>> stuff such as sound, USB, etc.. THen turn them back on one-by-one to
>>>> see if you can boot.
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