Trouble During The Installation - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual

172 Appendix E:Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
The installation program will first try to run in frame buffer mode. If that fails, it will try to run in a
lower resolution mode. If that still fails, the installation program will run in text mode.
Users who have video cards that will not run at 800 x 600 resolution should type lowres at the
boot: prompt to run the installation program in 640 x 480 resolution.
If this still does not work, you can run the installation program without frame buffers by typing nofb
at the boot: prompt.
E.3 Trouble During the Installation
E.3.1 Partition Creation Problems
If you are having trouble creating a partition (for example, a root (/) partition), make sure you are
setting its partition type to Linux Native.
Unless your BIOS supports otherwise, make sure /boot does not exceed the 1023 cylinder head.
If you do not, the installation program will not allow you to create a /boot or / partition. Some
new systems allow you to exceed the 1023 limit (with GRUB and the newer LILO versions that are
available), but most machines with older BIOS will not.
E.3.2 Using Remaining Space
You have a swap and a / (root) partition created, and you have selected the root partition to use the
remaining space, but it does not fill the hard drive.
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders, you must create a /boot partition if you want the /
(root) partition to use all of the remaining space on your hard drive.
E.3.3 Other Partitioning Problems
If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably have
not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid's dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
• A /boot partition of type Linux native
• A / (root) partition of type Linux native
• A <swap> partition of type Linux swap