starting firstboot (stops)

[metooz]

Hello, I have just installed Red Hat 9.0 on a dual partition running Windows XP. I get the Grub bootloader I select Linux and then it starts the process it gets to "starting firstboot" and the monitor goes black and the harddrive seems to stop. It sits for a long time and does nothing. I have no idea what the problem is as this is my first try with linux. :) any ideas? any fixes?
Thanks for your help.:rolleyes:

[JohnT]

It sounds as if GRUB cannot find your bootable Linux partition.
Post your GRUB config file and your harddrive partioning layout.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/kohli.html

[Satanic Atheist]

Quite possible the partition is not bootable...

Maybe an:

> fdisk /dev/hdx

Where x is the drive that you're install is on:

/dev/hda - Primary Master
/dev/hdb - Primary Slave
/dev/hdc - Secondary Master
/dev/hdd - Secondary Slave

If you now type:

> p

You will print the partition table. Can you post this here?

> q

Will leave FDisk. Do not press "w" (for safety's sake).

James