My RH 8.0 can't boot up, pls help!!!

[inetd]

I have installed the Redhat 8.0 on my notebook. However I can't boot it up even using the floppy boot disk. It was passed the grub boot menu and then booting until it show a message:
blk. queue c03c0004, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk. queue c03c0004, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

Then it was no response.

It is a 20G harddrive and partitioned as follow:

/dev/hda1 100M /boot
/dev/hda2 384M linux swap
/dev/hda3 10G Window 2000 NTFS
/dev/hda4 Extend
/dev/hda5 500M /
....
.... other linux partition
....

Pls help, I can't use the linux right now! -_-

Thanks.

 

[Speculus]

Possibly it's the NTFS filesystem.
I've read that that these have to be mounted READONLY but don't know how true that is (never tried it, don't need to).
If this is the cause then boot from your install cd in rescue mode. This allows you to edit system files and such.
go to /etc/fstab and either edit out the /dev/hda3 or amend it to be read only. Exit out and reboot.

Cross your legs and hope for the best.

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

I've heard about problems with / filesystem above a certain limit (?) on some disks, when linux kernel tries to mount it (but probably fixed in latests releases, however). I think I'd try to make /dev/hda2 my root partition and /dev/hda5 for swap, just to check ...