(Gigabyte GA-7ZX Duron 600 and 450 or so mg ram)
Installed RH 7.1 4 days ago and had probs booting up...
It will only boot up if I disconnect the 2 cdroms on my pc....CD/RW DVD
I have WinXP on Maxtor 40 gig (master)and Red Hat 7.1 on a Seagate 10gig (slave)on IDE 1. Then I have a Sony CD/RW (master) and DVD (slave) on IDE 2.
I have tried evey possible set up with 4 devices, but it will only boot WITHOUT cd's connected ON THIS PC! On my Celeron 300 no probs ! ! !
I am new to Linux, I like it very much but I would very much like to have a pc without a limp :)
I would be happy with just 1 CD..
Thanks
Keith

can you clarify more on not booting up, eg. what error message you get, does the computer even power up, does it say non system boot disk or something, etc. We need to know what causing the problem (hardware, software) to be able to solve it.

Perhaps you should check your BIOS booting sequence

When I power on the pc boots normaly, lilo starts and I choose "linux" then it proceeds to load normaly, it gets to "enabeling swap space" (green OK) next to it and a blinking underscore underneath it. And that is where it stops, the underscore (in replace of a cursor) just blinks...
My BIOS boot sequence is floppy, cd, ide.
If I unplug the cdrw & dvd it boots fine, if I take this hard drive out of this pc and put it in my other one it boots ok.
I have tried RedHat 7.1 and also Mandrake 8.0 with the same results...
Thanks for helping
Keith

Maybe changing your BIOS sequence to floppy, ide, cd will fix the problem.