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>First of all I want to say sorry if I didn't include all of the >information needed to give you an understanding of my problem.. I will try >to be more thorough. > >Set up. > >Pentium 2 450 with a 9 gig scsi drive on lun0 drive > >Disk has been formatted and verified with scsi utilities > >disk has been formatted FAT16 with an 800mg partition and a 2 gig FAT16 >partition >1st partition has been set to active > >When trying to install RH 7.1 I get the install menu but when it tries to >install it looks like it probes to see what devices are there and when it >comes to the hard drive I get a dump of a number of <c##############> >(where # is some series of numbers) > >I cannot capture the output on my screen but the two errors I was able to >write down are: > >Kernel panic: Aiee killing interrupt handler >In Interrupt handler not synccing > >and the other one is > >unable to handle virtual paging request at virtual address 73be000d > >When I did the FDISK, I used a WIN98 boot disk but I also have access to a >program called EFDISK. > >Now I have heard that the disk should be formatted FAT16, not formatted >FAT16 but EXT2FS, and it doesn't make a difference because disk druid will >take over and do it for you... > >I tried to be as complete as I can be, I have been to number of sites >(Redhat in particular) but they talk about fdisk but nothing about the >format type. Even in the Linux Sys Admin books I have it doesn't talk about it. > >If someone needs more information, feel free to email me. Thanks for any help. > > >Robert
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