Appendix D. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux

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This error occurs in some systems where links to

/tmp

are symbolic to other locations or have been

changed since creation. These symbolic or changed links are invalid during the installation process,

so the installation program cannot write information and fails.

If you experience such an error, first try to download any available errata for Anaconda. Errata can

be found at:

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata

You can also search for bug reports related to this problem. To search Red Hat's bug tracking system,

go to:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

Finally, if you are still facing problems related to this error, register your product and contact our

support team. To register your product, go to:

http://www.redhat.com/apps/activate

D.4. Problems After Installation

D.4.1. Trouble With the Graphical GRUB Screen?

If, for some reason, you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so, as root, by editing

the

/boot/grub/grub.conf

file and then rebooting your system.

To do this, comment out the line which begins with

splashimage

in the

grub.conf

file. To comment

out a line, insert the

;

character at the beginning of the line.

Once you reboot, the

grub.conf

file will be reread and your changes will take place.

You may re enable the graphical boot screen by uncommenting (or adding) the above line back into

the

grub.conf

file and rebooting.

D.4.2. Trouble With the Graphical LILO Screen?

If, for some reason, you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so, as root, by editing

the

/etc/lilo.conf

file and then rerunning LILO.

First, as root, comment out (or delete) the line which reads

message=/boot/message

in the

/etc/lilo.conf

file. To comment out a line, insert the

;

character at the beginning of the line.

Next, rerun LILO by typing

/sbin/lilo  v

. The next time you boot, you will see the text

LILO:

prompt, as used in previous Red Hat Linux releases.

You may re enable the graphical boot screen by adding (or uncommenting) the above line back into

the

lilo.conf

file and rerunning LILO.

D.4.3. Booting into a Graphical Environment

If you have installed the X Window System, but are not seeing a graphical desktop environment once

you log into your Red Hat Linux system, you can easily start the X Window System graphical interface

using the command

startx

.

Once you enter this command and press [Enter], you will be able to log into the graphical desktop of

your choice (such as GNOME or KDE).