This is a shot in the dark, but I recall seeing something recently about Dell setting IDE devices to cable select rather than actually jumpering devices as master/slave, and that this can cause problems for the redhat 7.1/7.2 installer. Jeff On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, David Blevins wrote: > > It's a: > Dell Dimension XPS T700r > Pentium III 700 > 512 MB Ram > IDE 0 disk 0 - Western Digital 20 gig, 7200 rpms > IDE 0 disk 1 - nothing > IDE 1 disk 0 - CD/DVD-ROM, by Hitatchi (sp?) > IDE 1 disk 1 - CD-RW, by Sony > PCI - 3com 3C905C-TXM NIC (for LAN) > PCI - 3com 3C905C-TX-M NIC (for WAN)-- not used at the moment > PCI - Creative Labs 'something' Live! > AGP - Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet 32 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 256 compliant) > > > Running a test on my RAM using the memtest program you recommended, its > about 50% done after 30 minutes. > > I can't imagine I have bad sectors on my hard drive as I can install 6.1 > fine. It doesn't recognize half my system, but the files install ok and the > machine starts (no X or anything fancy though). > > I lost the site (looking for it now), but I found something from the Red Hat > 'install' maining list archive that mentioned needing to pass ide parameters > to the kernel. The failure always happens right when the installer needs to > write to the disk. Any ideas on that? > > I don't need any of the files on the disk, so any avenues involving > completely wiping the disk are A-OK with me. > > Thanks for the direction. > > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Florin Iucha > > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:16 PM > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Shoot me, please!!! > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:46:55PM -0600, David Blevins wrote: > > > Argh! > > > > > > I just ran out and bought 7.2 so I'd have the 'official' cd > > distribution. > > > I get all the way to the last screen of the install process and > > get a kernel > > > panic. Says "Attempted to kill init!", whatever that means. > > > > > > I am attempting to install over 6.1, I can't upgrade because my > > partitions > > > were blown away. > > > > > > > What machine is that? CPU, Memory, HDD? > > > > Have you ran memtest86 on it recently? www.memtest86.com for details. > > Have you ran badblocks on the hdd? > > > > florin > > > > -- > > > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >