Loopback Interface Hang

[blissmj]

Hello,

I'm trying to take baby steps to converting to Linux. I'm trying to load Red Hat 8.0 and am not encouraged. Maybe you can help...

I partitioned by 40 gig hard drive to make room for RedHat 8.0. It's now got 5 gigs on my Sony laptop running at 1.2 GHz with 512 megs of RAM.

The installations (and subsequent installations) went great. BUT when I try to load Linux, it stalls at the Loopback Interface. Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Mike Bliss

[slapNUT]

It's probably hanging on your network card. Can you remove the network card and try to boot without it?

If you can't do that then you can boot using the rescue mode then disable network service.

Try removing the network card first and let me know if that doesn't work.

[blissmj]

slapNUT,

Thanks for sharing your insight. I'd take out my Ethernet card, but I don't know how to take it out of my laptop.

However, I can load RH8 if I don't load any of the network stuff - suggesting that I have issues correctly setting up my network card. I've tried a variety of ethernet card setups and haven't found one that would give me the loopback error. Might this be the case?

Many thanks,
Mike