Red Hat Linux 7.0 - Won't Boot

[Urmo]

I bought a copy of Linux 7.0 for Dummies and it came with three CDs. I wiped out windows from an old HP Pavilion that had been modified with a 8.0 mg maxtor drive, an Evergreen 200 MX pro processor upgrade (modified winchip) and 128 of plain vanilla ram. The mother board has a built in crystal sound card and an S3 Trio video card with 2 mg of memory. I got all thru the installation a couple of times, once in text mode and once in graphical mode. When I get the Red Hat screen and select Linux - the only choice, I see "loading linux." Sometimes there are a series of periods,sometimes not.

Any suggestions?

[bdg1983]

How is your drive partitioned and where did you install Lilo?

Can you boot with a bootdisk? If so, then post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf

[fateswarm]

At where it has stuck.. before the uncompression of kernel, I suppose there is no need to check the lilo.conf but the actual lilo install. Yes, try booting with a disk and fix it from there. I'm not familiar with Red Hat so I can't point to what app to use for that. Sorry.

[Urmo]

The floppy does not get me in either, so I can't log in. So far the farthest I can get is:

boot: linux........
Then the either it hangs, or the system reboots...

I don't know where lilo is because I can't see the linux drive...I chose workstation install and auto partition. Prior to linux, I had reformatted the harddrive using the Maxtor, MaxBlast EZ-Drive program to a FAT32 drive with one partition of approx 8MG.

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[Choozo]

8 MegaBytes?? .... that should be 8 GigaBytes, right? If not, you wouldn't get much on that drive.

Do HP put parts of the BIOS on the harddrive like Compaq does, and if so, could this be the problem?

Is the drive bootable at all (do you have a primary partition)?

Cheers :)