Can anybody help me with my problem. I have windows XP as an OS and then I installed Red Hat Linux to dual boot from it. After everything was done, when I chose to boot to Linux from the WinXP loader it would just go to the grub shell. How can you make Linux go directly to the GUI.

The answer you're looking for is: There is a line in /etc/inittab which goes: id:3:initdefault: which you change to: id:5:initdefault: You see, to "go to the GUI" means that your box runs gdm. To "go straight to the GUI" means to run gdm by default, instead of by your running "/etc/init.d/gpm start". You could read about runlevels, the contents of /etc/rc.d, "man inittab" and that sort of thing if you wanted more information.

I got some problem when I tried to configure my Lilo.conf to dual boot WinXP and RedHat8.0. After I changed Lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo, it is right, comes out with added linux added winxp But when I reboot using /sbin/shutdown -r now, it gave me this message: "init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl" what does it mean? while I tried to boot linux, it blocked.