I had the a similar problem happen to me when I tried Redhat 7.2 and
mandrake 9.0. Not quite the the extreme that you did(I didn't have to
pull the battery.). I got frustrated and decided to put Windows on the
box.
After I formated the HD (fat32) using a win98 boot disk I decided to try
one more time. I installed Redhat9 and it installed like a dream. In fact
I am typing on it now.
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 08:13:19 +0000, James Whitehead wrote:
> The following happened whenI tried to install Mandrake 9.0 and Red Hat
8.0
>
> I tried to install Red Hat 8.0 in expert mode by typing the following
"linux
> expert noprobe" then it actually worked as far as the install goes. I
chose
> the packages that I wanted and they were installed as normal, but here
is
> the trickey part. After the installer told me to emove the installtion
media
> and reboot, I did, then the screen went blank as if it were going to
reboot,
> but that was just that it went blank and nothing else happened. Then I
> restarted the computer and went tinto failsafe mode for linux and got
the
> kernel panic again. Here is the messages that were posted right before
the
> kernel panic came up;
>
> Initializing PC Card Devices......
>
> Bank 3: b40000000000083b at 00000001fc0003b0
>
> Kernel panic: Unable to continue
>
> After this is displayed the keyboard wont work and niether will the
power
> button, the only way I can get it to reboot is to unplug it from the
wall
> and then take the battery out then put the battery back in and hit the
power
> button, after that I have to make sure I get the cdrom out before the
> install starts or I am SOL again. I would appreciate any help you can
give
> me on this problem. Oh yeah I get the same error when I tried to install
Red
> Hat 8.0 and Evil Entity did not have any luck either. Nor did caldera.
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