Fixing redhat 8.0 from Rebooting over and over 5

[favit]

How do I fix my redhat 8.0 machine from constantly booting up at startup. It keeps on booting and booting. Does anyone have a tutorial or know how to fix this issue?

Most Appreciative,



Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[RhythmAce]

Did this just start on a machine that has been running a while or on a new install? Can you tell us what the last thing you see before it reboots? Does it reboot at the same point every time?

 

[favit]

This is a 3 day old install. I dont remember the last thing I did. It reboots right after the grup window where it asks me to pick the version of Linux so I hit enter and it goes back to rebooting. As rebooting I see a whole bunch of processes starting up!

Thanks

Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[thedaver]

You know, RedHat 8 is really old and really unsupported.

My guess is that your MBR is corrupt or something early in the boot sequence has been corrupted.

That said, I'd do two things:

1) Acquire a new version of linux, say Fedora, Debian, CentOS. Centos, I've come to find, is very familiar ground for those of us who spent a lot of time doing RedHat v6, 7, 8 and v9 installs.

2) I would install that new OS and MAKE SURE to have the fdisk/disk druid/partioning step do a full format of the drive partitions being installed.

You might have a bad disk, you definitely have an old OS.

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[favit]

I have the same version at a different location that I intalled with the same disks and its working fine. I really dont think is the disks at all.

Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[Chacalinc]

Do what thedaver says, you have the same version, on the same hardware? may be not... as thedaver said you, RH8.0 is very very old, forget it.. isntall Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever, but forget RH8.0

Cheers.

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[favit]

no thanks

I dont understand why this is not working and I want to fix it. It makes no sense why the cds are an issue. Or why I should change the O.S.

Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[thedaver]

I meant BAD DISK DRIVE on the PC!

A corrupted boot sector (MBR) or faulting disk, or inappropriate BIOS configuration of the disk (depending on how old the BIOS is) could all lead to abberrant behavior on anything installed, irrespective of the linux distribution you choose.

So, please take measures to
1) Install something that is supported (i.e. a newer linux),
2) Ensure that the hard disk drive is properly configured, recognized, partitioned, and fully formatted without errors.

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[stefanwagner]

@chacalinc: "RH8.0 is very very old, forget it.. install Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever, but forget RH8.0"

I can't imagine that RH8.0 was designed to boot over and over, and got fixed at RH9.0 or something.

Perhaps your default runlevel is set (by mistake) to 'reboot'.
The default runlevel is set in /etc/inittab and is normally 3, 4 or 5:

id:3:initdefault:

I heard you may edit files using grub before booting, but I use lilo, and can not elaborate on this.
With lilo, I can choose an entry to boot (i.e.: l-2.6.12) and add manually a runlevel (l-2.6.12 3).

Chances are good, that that isn't the problem, but it's easy to test, and fast to fix, if it is.

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[jstreich]

The CDs aren't the issue. The issue is something in the boot process... My guess is that you upgraded kernels or reinstalled Grub so that the MBR is trying to boot from a kernel image that no longer exsists or otherwise not found -- but this is just a guess. If this is the case you can use the install disk as a boot disk, at the "boot: " prompt type

linux rescue

and press enter. You'll be in a diminished system, but advanced enough to do what you need. Check that the image is where Grub wants it to be, and that Grub's configuarations are right, and then reinstall Grub to the MBR.

I too will push you to move to Fedora, simply because running old software has security concerns and other support issues. If you were to contact RedHat with this issue, they'd tell you "go suck an egg" because they've stop supporting it -- and then they'd try and sell you RedHat Enterprise.

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[RhythmAce]

For you trivia buffs out there, which version of Red Hat never had a minor upgrade? You guessed it - 8.0. They jumped straight to 9.0. There never was an 8.1. It was a bad release and didn't stay out there long.

 

[thedaver]

Hrm,
Was there a 9.x beyond 9.0??? I thought they went straight to Fedora after 9.0.....

Yes, 8.0 was a piece of crap. 7.x series was rather nice.

6.2 was fine for low end routers/firewalls.

Now Fedora/RHel/Centos are pushing 3GB if you take "everything". Thats crazy, unless you plan on using all those office/desktop features. I still see stuff being listed as packages that I don't know what the hell they do for the desktop.

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[RhythmAce]

I think they took 9.0 and called it Fedora Core 1. That would make core 4 = 9.3 ;-)

 

[favit]

Is linux 9.0 a good O.S?

Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[RhythmAce]

Linux doesn't really have a version number. It usually goes by the kernel version and release. The version 9.0 is refering to the version number of particular disros. If you asking if Red Hat 9.0 is a good os, the answer is that it is very good. Share holder of Red Hat didn't like the same people working on both the Enterprise version and free version so they created fedora. The stopped using the "shadow man" logo and just used his hat. Hence fedora. You can read mora about it at

http://fedora.redhat.com

 

[favit]

Which should I download? and what are the difference between the fallowing two?

FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso

FC4-i386-disc1.iso

Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[RhythmAce]

You do not need the SRPMS unless you plan on compiling everything yourself. These files contain the source code for the packages.

 

[thedaver]

You'll need ALL 3-4 CD's labeled with "disc1", "disc2" etc.

RhythmAce's right, don't bother with SRPMS.

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[Chacalinc]

after responde me a "no thanks (I will not install another one)" you are going to FC4... good decision!



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[favit]

Suppose I want to create my own email server. Which discs will have what I need?

FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1,2,3,4.iso

FC4-i386-disc1,2,3,4.iso




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