hello friends

I dont know why Linux can not be installed on my PC
i tried Ubuntu 8.10 and RedHat 5, but i cudnt install it...

Today i again tried installing RedHat 5 and on booting from dvd the RedHat installation menu appeared prompting me to choose the installation mode-Command Line or Graphical, i selected graphical and after sometime a black screen occured with the following error log:

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ff ff 0d 00 00 01 00 a3 50 d3 ff ff a1
EIP:[<c0416ee2>] clear_local_APIC+0x20/0xf4 SS:ESP 0068:dfb06470
<0>Kernel panic-not syncing: Fatal exception
<1>BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffd320
printing eip:
c0416ee2
*pde=00004067
Oops: 0003 [#15]
SMP
last sysfs file:
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c0416ee2>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010006 (2.6.18-8.e15 #1)
EIP is at clear_local_APIC+0x20/0xf4
eax: 00010000 ebx: dfb06470 ecx:00000001 edx:00000002
esi: 00000068 edi:dfb0643c ebp:00000006 esp:dfb063a4
ds: 007b es:007b ss:0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=dfb06000 task=dfb05aa0 task.ti=dfb06000)
Stack: c0416fbb c0415964 00000000 c0423757 c061cdeb c0764320 dfb063d4 dfb063d4
dfb006470 00000068 c04054dd c0613f2d 00000003 c061c82a dfb0643c c061c82a
00000003 0000000e 0000000b 00004067 ffffd320 dfb05aa0 00000003 c05fd66f
Call Trace:
[<c0416fbb>] disable_local_APIC+0x5/0x28

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the configuration of my PC is:
intel pentium-4, 2.2 ghz
and pentium-4 compatible digigiga motherboard
1.5gb ram
40 gb hdd
nvidia geforce 6200 gpu

please explain the meaning of the above error log and why Linux cant be installed on my PC
and also please suggest me which version of Linux will be suitable for my pc


Thanks in advance

Try the text-mode installer, just to see if it works. If it does, try appending the following to the kernel options:
Exactly how you do that in the RedHat installer I'm not sure.

hi Lordandmaker
i tried what u said

after the booting of the RedHat 5, an installation menu appeared having the foll. options..
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-To install or upgrade in graphical mode, press the <ENTER> key
-To install or upgrade in text mode, type: linux text<ENTER>
-Use the function keys listed below for more information
[F1-Main] [F2-Options] [F3-General] [F4-Kernel] [F5-Rescue]

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so i entered:
noapic nolapic apic=off

but no use, again the error log appeared as shown in my earlier post
so i retried to install and this time i pressed F4 for Kernel and typed

linux noapic nolapic apic=off

and this time an error appeared: no kernel image found

so please suggest me some other way

with regards

friends please help me....

i need to install linux
please help !!

Your computer may have a faulty memory module, which can cause those type of issues. So boot to a CD disk with a RAM tester utility on it, such as this; http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page, or; http://www.memtest86.com/