linux redhat 9 stops booting

[faheemhameed]

Hi there friends,

I am very new to linux. I have just successfully installed the linux OS redhat 9. When the first time I rebooted the system, the system is not booting up. It halts or hangs at the following:

Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 flags 0x03 (driver version 1.16)

Please help me shed some lights on this issue to solve the problem.

Thanks a lot.

Hameed

[yowwww]

try disabling plug n play in your bios and if that doesn't work, try disabling advanced power management in it and see if that works.

[faheemhameed]

Hi there,

I tried the following when I boot up the linux.

Added to the kernal parameter

apm=off

Finally I was able to login smoothly.

I understand that we can also use apm=idle_threshold=100

got this trick from

http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwbo...rum/19530.html

Hameed