I've found RH 8 to be very flaky on anything except high end HW.

JMHO,
Brian

I have Mandrake 9.0 if you'd like to try that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mick Ohrberg [mailto:mick@ohrberg.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:15 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: RedHat install on Microtel SYSMAR 737 Lindows box
> 
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> Hi!
> 
> On request from a coworker, I'm trying to load RH8 on a 
> Wintel box, and I'm not getting very far. It keeps PANICing 
> and complaining about not being able to mount rootfs and 
> whatnot. I did notice that both the HD and the CDROM is on 
> the primary IDE chain. 
> 
> Also, for SOME reason, I can't even hit <DEL> to enter the 
> BIOS settings, so I can't wreak havoc there either. Anyone 
> have any ideas? (No, the CD media is not corrupt... :) )
> 
> Thanks in advance!
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