Problem with RedHat 4.2 !!!

["A Giannopoulos" <ag ohm york ac uk>]

 Hi,

 I run into serious problems installing RedHat 4.2 on my machine. 
 I used to have an old (1.2.1) Slackware Linux and when I tried to
 install RedHat 4.2 the installation process was crashing with a message:

 invalid operand: 0000
 CPU: 0
 EIP: 0010:[<0010c611>]
 EFLAGS: 00010046
 eax: 0000002 ebx: 00009ac ......... Numbers scralling to fast to log  !
 ds:  es: ...... 
 Stack: ......
 Call Trace: ........
 Code: ff ff 90 fc 06 1e 50 52 51 ba 18 00 00 00 66 8e da 66 8e c2
 kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001c76dc ..........
 kfree of non-kmalloced memory: ..........
 kfree of non-kmalloced memory: .........
 idle task may not sleep
 idle task may not sleep
 idle task may not sleep
 hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
 ide0: reset: success
 hdb: irq timeout: status=0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete }
 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, sector ......
 hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { ............
 ...............
 ...............

 The configuration of the machine is
 486 DX4 100 MHz
 24MB RAM
 Phoenix Bios
 hda --> MAXTOR 850 MB (DOS 6.2)
 hdb --> MAXTOR 850 MB (Linux or was LINUX...)
 hdc --> ATAPI CDROM CDE200 (CREATIVE)
 
 Finally I managed to install only the base RedHat 4.2 system 
and LILO in a floppy.
 However, when I tried to install other packages (being able to login) 
 or even to boot Linux I am getting the same error messages ....

 At boot time the hardware is detected properly (i.e. RAM, HDs, CDROM)
 This error message it seems to appear at "random" (i.e. not at the same
 point each time...) and I think it should be hardware related ?

 I never had any problems before with my old Linux (1.2.1)

 Any suggestions ?

 Thanks in advance


 Antonis Giannopoulos
 Department of Electronics
 University of York
 UK
 e-mail: ag ohm york ac uk