Just to install mandrake 8 I had to find one of the alternate CDimages that would work - just booting from the CD or the other floppy images resulted in a hang shortly after the initial welcome screen where you press F1 or Enter - no matter what option I tried everything locked up. But that's not the problem I'm asking about, I just think it's a clue - in earlier posts I provided the details. Now that I've installed Mandrake 8 I still can't boot properly unless I use my RedHat7 boot disk. I do not have RedHat7 anywhere on my computer. The Mandrake boot disks, grub, and lilo all fail no matter which option I choose. I get a kernal panic: cpu context corrupt, preceeded by machine check exception or something of the sort. CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 000000000004 Bank 0: f20000000a01 Bank 3: b20000000a01 Kernal panic: CPU context corrupt When I do boot into Mandrake using the RH7 boot disk I can only get the 2.2.16-22 kernal. After my first install of mandrake I wiped everything and did a fdisk /mbr before reinstalling. Same problem after reinstall. I suspect that this boot problem combined with the old kernal has something to do with the fact I can't mount any drives and vfat isn't supported. I see a lot of [Failed]s when I boot - most of them having to do with vfat not being supported and USB fails too. I tried compiling a new kernal and choosing that in grub but I get the same problem. What is on the Red Hat boot disk that might be different from what the mandrake uses either on the mandrake boot floppy or when booting normally thru lilo or grub? Thanks, Eric
