Flop through the alternative virutal consoles: Alt-F1 to Alt-F4 to get more
debug information during the install.
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Basil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:06 PM
Subject: Redhat install fails
> Ok...I'm totally stuck. I'm trying to install Redhat on a friends
> computer. First I tried 7.0...when that didn't work, I then tried
> 6.1. THat too failed. Anaconda craps out every time when formatting
> the filesystems. Throws out a 'general protection fault' and a bunch
> of garbage.
>
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> etc, etc.
>
> I have never had any problems like this, and I'm hoping that it's
> not the hard disk. The computer is running a celeron 566. it's
> on a slot 1 bx board with 128 MB RAM. First the install wouldn't
> recognize any but 13 MB of RAM, and then I started the install with
> 'linux mem=127M'. The disk is a Maxtor 12.? G drive. It's the Primary
> master, and the only device on that chain. There is also a cd rom
> on the secondary channel. I'm clueless. Has anyone had these type
> of problems before? Please tell me that there is an easy fix for
> this...asside from buying a new drive. Oh, and the partition table
> is as follows:
>
> hda1 - 15 M - /boot
> hda2 - 1 G - C:
> hda3 - 2 G - /
> hda4 - Extended
> hda5 - 128 M - swap
> hda6 - 2 G - D:
> hda7 - 700 M - /root
> hda8 - 3 G - E:
> hda9 - 1.5 G - F:
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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