Red Hat 7.2 Installation error

[magicmike]

Here is my system
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
SOYO Dragon Ultra Kt 400 motherboard
ATI Radeon 9700 pro
Western digital 180 GB hard drive (Has Windows XP)
Western Digital 40GB hard drive (For Linux)
2 sticks of PC3200 samsung 512 DDR RAM
floppy drive
Panasonic DVD –r /RAM drive

I tried to install red hat linux 7.2 from the cd, it did not want to show graphic mode so I did Text mode and this is the error that came up. ( I have also tried to boot from a floppy, has the same problem )


RAMDISC driver initialized: 16 RAM discs of 7168k size 1024 block size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
Ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes: override with idebus=xx
Unable to handle Kernel paging request at virtual address 00030002
Printing eip:
C023f326
pde=00000000
Oops:#0000
CPU:0
eIP:0010:[<co23f326>]
eFLAGS:00010292
eax:c1ef3f40 ebx:c21df800 ecx:00000cf8 edx:00000005
esi:00030002 edi:c01efa18 ebp:c0244d74 esp:c1ef3f34
ds:0018 es:0018 ss:0018
process swapper (pid:1, stackpage=c1ef3000)
Stack: 00000000 0000b6c1 00000005 c01efa18 c01efbf1 c01efbf8 c01efbff
00030002 00050004 00070006 c0293ec0 c023f612 c21df800 001b3880 c023d0d4

CallTrace:[<01efa187>] [<c01efa18>] [<c01efbf1>] [<c01efbf8>] [<c01efbff>]
[<c01fca407>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105201>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105642>] [<c01051f8>]
Code: ac aa 84 c0 75 fa 8b 44 24 08 83 f8 04 77 27 83 f8 03 72 22
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

[mdwatts]

I'm sorry for the delay in responding to your question. Sometimes it's hard to get enough time to reply to all the threads posted here especially when you have to work, eat and sleep.

I would have hoped other members could have at least given you a few suggestions.

See if anything in this thread (http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78081) helps as the problem is similiar to yours.

It could be that you are attempting to install a old version of Redhat on the new hardware.

You would be better off trying Redhat 8.0 instead.

[magicmike]

Tried everything in the link but noting worked. I may just take out the harddrive and put it on a different computer.