It was in LBA, I then changed it to 'normal'. That didn't help.
However, would it make a difference if I partitioned, and then changed
it to normal?
At Tuesday, 14 November 2000, you wrote:
>I once kept getting kernel oops's with a system during an install.
. It was
>the disk and I knew it. Is the disk in LBA mode in BIOS?
>
>On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Mark Basil wrote:
>
>> 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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