After days of trying to resolve an error when installing Red Hat 8, it is finally working.

The error occurred right after the hard drive was partitioned during the install:

<0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interupt handler!
In Interrupt handler - not syncing

After narrowing the problem down to the hard drive, I received some interesting commands to run at the boot prompt. I booted the system using a 98 floppy boot disk, and ran these commands:

Debug
- FCS:200 400 0
- ACS:100
MOV AX, 301
MOV BX, 200
MOV CX, 1
INT 13
INT 20
<CR> (carriage return. Hit enter)
G
Q

I am a UNIX guy, not a DOS guy, so I am not sure what these commands do. My hunch is that there was a bad sector on my hard drive, and these commands cleaned it up.

Hope this helps someone having this same problem.