Fwd: ok let me try this again....

[Robert P. Sarao]

>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