Re: Linux Doesnt Install ---plzz help.

[TMAN <tman76in yahoo com>]

 Hi Veena,
 
 Boot from dos/windows floppy... remove all partions
from fdisk command..then type fdisk/mbr .and try to
install...

all the best
TMAN
 


--- Veena Gudi <Veena Gudi xoriant com> wrote:
> > Hi guys...
> > 
> > 	I these questions might sound very naive... But
> plzz help.. I am
> > stuck up with my installation..
> > 	Plz have the patience to go thru my story...
> > 
> > 	1. I had installed RedHat Linux 6.1 GNUWorkstaion
> on my secondary
> > master hard disk of my machine.. It got installed
> properly on hdc drive..
> > 	2. Next day i tried to boot my system.. it gave
> me a kernel panic
> > error with some stack dump.. So i decided
> re-install by booting from my
> > CDRom.. it gave kernel 		panic again?
> > 	3. . Then i made my hard disk my primary
> master... and i Booted my
> > system with the Linux installed harddisk as my
> Primary master (hda) .. It
> > gave "LI" and 		stopped.
> > 	4 I tried installing on hda using my CDRom... it
> gave me a kernel
> > panic error with some stack dump..
> > 	5. I tried installing in expert mode with the
> command "linux
> > root=/dev/hda1". it booted... started recognising
> my hardware config and
> > then suddenly restarted the computer!!!!... and
> installing it with "linux
> > root=/dev/hda2" , "linux root=/dev/hda3"  gives me
> a kernel panic.
> > 	
> > 	
> > 	I dont understand what happened.. I am really
> stuck.. why cannot i
> > reformat my HDD using the Installation CD.. why is
> that giving problems..
> > 	Is any thing gone wrong with my hard ware
> config.. I dont
> > understand.. I suppose i have tried all the
> possible combinations i could
> > think of... But it doesnt work..
> > 	Plzz plzz help
> > 	
> > 	
> > 	
> > 
> > 
> > Veena S Gudi
> > Software Engineer
> > Xoriant Solutions
> > 
> > Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by
> your friends. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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