Need Help, very frustrated! Linux won't boot
 

I have used Linux for many years, since 1997. I have converted a friend of mine to Linux awhile back. He just upgraded his computer and wants me to install Linux again for him. He has a brand new computer but still has his old hard drive along with a brand new Maxtor hard drive. In Windows the old hard drive is configured as the "F" drive. It looks like the old hard drive is and IDE type, it has a grey flat ribbon cable attatching it to the motherboard (915g Combo) The new hard drive, where he has his latest install of XP and all of his wifes files is a different type of drive, it has an orange cable attatched to it, I think it says Serial ATA and it is connected to the motherboard also. there are also a connector of some type with red,black and yellow wires connecting the two hard drives together. Is this a Raid? When I go into the Bios there is an option for boot sequence, besides the floppy and two cd drives of HDD: Pm-Maxtor and Raid: WDC I have managed to install both Suse 9.1 and Mandrake 2005 Le, the install goes flawlessly, but when I try to boot into the install, Windows boots by the way, I get the following error message: Kernel Panic, attempting to sync, attempting to kill init
Can someone please help me?? I've tried messing around with the Bios settings, but not sure what the problem is............

Re: Need Help, very frustrated! Linux won't boot
 

Black (ground), Red, Yellow, loose from each other is a power cable.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,47370,00.asp
(See Page 4)

I am assuming this is what you mean with the new hard drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redunda...ependent_disks


no it is not raid. you have a newer connection with the Serial_ATA with the new hard-drive using XP. you also have a (slightly older) IDE with the old hard-drive with old data, if you had raid you would have 3 or 4 drives depending on which level raid you were using.

BACK UP YOUR DATA! before doing anything!

Use the suse cd as a rescue disk, do not harm the XP partition! SAVE THE WIFES FILES OR THERE MIGHT BE HEL! TO PAY!

but before doing anything I need details on where you installed both distributions, sometimes inter-distro relations harm each other.

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