Re: install exited abnormally -- received signal 11

[Mick Mearns <mrkingdaddysir yahoo com>]

--- AJAX <ajhanger earthlink net> wrote:
> hi everyone, 
> 
> i'm a newbie here and would really appriciate some help. 
> 
> i put a new 80GB hard drive on an old e-machine an (etower|400id) and

(you said newbie so please do not be insulted)
signal-11 is ALWAYS a hardware problem.

see here:
http://jamesthornton.com/linux/FAQ/sig11/text/
(Its a text file)

Did you set the jumper(s) correctly for Master/Slave?
Where is your CDROM? (Master/Slave Pri/Sec controller?)

Windows expects the first drive to be C: (Pri/Mast)
Usually the Cdrom is Pri/Slave.

An 80G drive is going to use DMA (33/66/100/133) not PIO.
The system may have to be put into PIO mode to work with this fast drive.
If you only have the one hard drive and one CD then put them on seperate
cables, both as Masters.

You may have to tell the hard drive that it has a slave.

Look at the boot up screen from the bios and see if you can spot which is
where.
In fact go into the cmos and 'detect' the hard drives.
I am not familiar with the e-machine but mist bios'es let you do this.



> --oops!--ran the Seagate installation disk that came with the HD, which only
> had windows format options. i ran a few of them ('98, Me, and XP) and then
> tried to install Red Hat Linux 9.
> 
> a CompUSA person told me i shouldn't have done that. oh hell.

This makes no sense
Linux will fdisk the drive itself.

Remove the Linux CD from the drive.
Go into the cmos and find the drives.
Boot up and see that they are detected
The system should hand because there is nothing to boot.
This will let you read the screen.

Once the drives are detected correctly put the CD in the drive and reboot.

Mick M.


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