Ok, here's the problem. My friend's Red Hat 7.2 installation suddenly begins getting kernel panics. Thinking that maybe her brother messed about with Linux and screwed it up somehow. So I start the installation planning to delete all the partitions (yes, even the windows one) and do a clean install. It gets upto the point where it lets me choose between DiskDruid and FDISK and no matter which one I choose, it tells me that it could not read the MBR and it has to initialize the disk. I say what the heck and tell it to go ahead. That's when it gives me an error saying that it could not find any valid devices to make a partition on and it promptly reboots. After that I've tried a lot of things to get this baby running including using ranish to do the partitioning. And everytime i just get the same error. The wierd thing is that when I make a Fat32 parition using Ranish or DOS FDISK, the partitions are read by My friend's system is now blank and has nothing on it except a Fat32 partition that spans the entire disk (20 gigs). I've never come across a problem even similar to this and any ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers,
cgkanchi