Somebody pls help me! - I'm trying a dual boot Windows 98 SE and RHL 7 on my laptop but, as you've probably guessed I'm having probs with the linux install. I partitioned my 6Gb HD with FIPS as 50% Windows/ 50% for Linux. During the installation process I have used Disk Druid to set up a 128Mb Linux swap and the rest for /. The install process seems to go fine and accepts my hardware configs but when I reboot immediately after the install I get a weird message which I have no idea what it means! It goes something like this: code: 89 02 85 c0 74 03 89 50 04 b8 01 00 00 00 eb 03 90 31 c0 c7 Aiee, killing interrupt handler kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task In Interrupt handler - not syncing It just freezes after this Can anyone translate this into english for me or tell me if I've missed any important steps during the install... or if i'm just being thick! :-) Also, if I boot up Windows it crashes when attempt to open My Computer which i assume has something to do with my poor linux install attempt. If anybody can help shed some light as to what might be wrong I'd be very grateful. Here's some of my laptop specs: Pico Creator Intel Celeron 600Mhz 64Mb RAM Rage LT Pro 8Mb Graphics 6Gb HD Thanks in advance

I don't have the answer, but a google search on "code: 89 02 85 c0 74 03 89 50 04 b8 01 00 00 00 eb 03 90 31 c0 c7" and/or "Aiee" turned up some pretty deep, hairy articles related to certain known bugs and hardware incompatibilities. You might want to give some of them a look-over. BTW- One of the articles dealt with PCMCIA card issues. Try pulling all external cards/devices and rebooting. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

You have 3 Gig for Linux - make 256 MB for swap, make a /boot partition (~20MB), then a / partition. I'm guessing your error has something to do with this...you may want to take a look at the official RH Linux 7.0 installation guide on redhat.com - it is what i hung to when i first started...