SOMEONE PLEASE HELP???

[kriscannon]

okay i have one of those stupid linux partitions inside a fat drive u know where c: stores the redhat.img and red at swap file and now i try to boot linux it freezes on my osundcard module how do i turn this module off or get rid of it on bootup
im assumming
mount -t ??? /dev/??? /mnt/whatever
will mount this img file therefore the linux tree on my hd but what do i put in the question marks thanx anyone

[demian]

First try to boot to single user mode (where sound shouldn't be started). At the lilo prompt type:
<label_of_kernel_to_boot> init S
Then you can try and disable the sound card. Probably by compiling a kernel without sound support. What card is it btw?
If this doesn't work you could try to mount the image as a loopback device via mount -t ext2 -o rw,loop=/dev/loop0 /path/to/redhat_image /mount/point/you/choose. This will only work as long as you have loopback device support compiled into the kernel (or as a module).
Are you sure you have the sound support compiled as a module? I'm just asking because I'm surprised that it would load at boot time. My modules get all loaded on demand via the module autoloader... Anyways, to disable it I can only think of the sledgehammer method, namely deleting the module (or better move it to some other place) because I'm not used to dealing with modules that get loaded at boot time. However you could try and search through /etc/modules.conf and /lib/modules/<version>/modules.dep to see if you can disable the sound module there.

Good luck!

[kriscannon]

okay maybe its not a module that its booting up it ses
loading sound module (via82cxxx)
then just freezes thats through either booting
linux single
or
just normal
the soundcard is a via... "voice" i think