Hang after freeing unused kernel memory

darkcloud · 07-03-2003, 08:33 PM

after partitioning my laptop, installed windows on drive c and deleting the logical drive to auto partition for linux, the installation was smooth but the computer will hang during startup when it displays:

Freeing unused kernel memory : 136K

using laptop. anyone know wad's the prob? have tried manual and auto partitioning

darkcloud · 07-06-2003, 08:01 PM

did a full format of the system and removing the windows partition. Tried installing Linux only but the same problem still occurs.. anyone have any suggestions?

jailbait · 07-06-2003, 08:45 PM

What distribution are you using?

This could be a hangup caused by trying to autodetect unsupported hardware. Try disconnecting your devices such as modem, CD, ethernet, mouse, etc. one by one and reboot.

darkcloud · 07-06-2003, 08:47 PM

i'm using RedHat Linux 9.0. I have pluggeed out mi PCMCIA card and it still wun boot up. there are no other external hardware that i can remove already

jailbait · 07-06-2003, 09:08 PM

You may be able to disable the internal devices through the bios.

darkcloud · 07-06-2003, 09:10 PM

so is plugging out the card not enuff?

darkcloud · 07-06-2003, 10:38 PM

Hmm no options in the BIOS allows me to disable internal devices

camelrider · 07-06-2003, 11:26 PM

If you can get into your system with a boot floppy or the rescue mode from your install CD, please post the config file for your bootloader. If LILO, the file is /etc/lilo.conf. I don't know about Grub's config filename, but you might find it using a command like "ls /etc | grep grub".

darkcloud · 07-07-2003, 04:52 AM

can't.. all i can get to is the GRUB boot screen and the type'c' to access command line prompt. but from there cannot do much

darkcloud · 07-07-2003, 08:12 PM

the sentence shows before the INIT right? does that mean something's wrong with the INIT part? have been installing Linux 8 and 9 but the result is still the same. the only difference is tha amount of memory freed