Double-check the power and data connectors to the hard drive and the motherboard. Ensure all I/O cards are securely seated in their sockets.
It could be a PSU dip- try disconnecting the CDROM drive (if you have one) to reduce PSU load. Try disconnecting the hard drive and booting from a live CD (um, after reconnecting it) to test general booting ability. The Caps lock LEDs a blinking with an error code I believe, but I don't know where to get a list of codes and their meanings. The only way to capture a log of bootup messages (when there is no hard drive) that I can think of is to have a serial terminal (with logger) connected, and a kernel option which uses the serial port as the console. Uncommon. HTH, A On Tue, October 2, 2007 09:58, Davin Pearson wrote: > I am trying to get a Gnu/Linux box on-line for developing Linux based > computer games. > > I have installed RedHat Version 9 on my machine but when you boot up > it gives the following error message: > > <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler > In interrupt handler - not syncing > > > I also noticed that the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights are blinking > on and off. > > Further back I noticed the following error message: > > > DriveSeekCompleteError > > > Here are some questions and observations: > > > (1) How do I get a text file containing all of the diagnostic messages > that you see on boot up? > > (2) I suspect that the cause of the failures could be the hard drive > which is 40 GB. Perhaps Red Hat Linux version 9 being old does not expect > such a large hard drive. > > (3) A final note to this message is that fact that it does > successfully boot up about one time in ten. But this is hardly > satisfactory for serious use! > > Could I bring my computer along to a meeting of your user group for > someone brainy enough to diagnose my problem? > > -- > - Davin > Davin Pearson, http://www.davinpearson.com > >
