Pls help! I have a PIV 1,6, 256 RAM, 40 gb maxtor 6Lo4J2, MB Epox 4SDA+, chipset SIS 645. Cannot install any distribution (tried RH7, 7.2, MDK8, 8.1, 8.2). After the first screen appears something like: fbo: VESA VGA frame buffer device block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized:16RAM disk of 32000K size 1024 block size Uniform multiplaform E-IDE DRIVER rev:6-31 ide: assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes; override ide bus=xx sis5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18 sis5513: chipset revision 202 sis5513: not 100% native mode, will probe irq later sis 645 ide 0 : BM-DMAat 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdl-pio Unable to handle remote paging request at virtual adress 0006e000 printig eip: c02195e6 Oops:0000 CPU:0 EIP:0010 [], not tained EFLAGS: 00010292 ... and ends with: kernekl panic.Attempted to kill init

As a last resort you might try your hard drive in another PC for the Linux install. Then move the drive to your problem PC. It worked for me with Red Hat 7.3.