I had an AMD 400 too earlier, but I had problems while i8nstalling redhat 7.1 with kernel panics at random places. It turned out later that the VIA motherboard on which a typical AMD K6-II is installed had some DMA glitches, that the redhat kernel could not handle. The solution as given at the Exocore website was to give the kernel parameter "ide=nodma" during install.
So while booting from the install CD try "linux ide=nodma" at the LILO boot. - Sandip > 1. Whenever I try to install linux, i always get a kernel panic error (unable to >load root filesystem) > whichever mode i tried....text, expert, rescue....its still the same problem... > The config of this machine is 10 GB HDD as primary Master > 20 GB HDD as primary slave > cd rom is secondary master > > 2. On my own machine, amd 400Mhz, 64 Mb ram, i am running linux successfully, uptil >redhat 7.1. now after upgrading to 7.2 (also a clean install) i am unable to Acccess >my CDROM drive, i always get "/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" whenever i try >to mount it... > hoping for some helpful answers from the linux gurus out there.... -- Sandip Bhattacharya Mindframe Software Work: sandip @ mindsw.com, http://www.mindsw.com Play: sandipb @ bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net ----------------------------------------------- ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
