Need help installing linux on an HP laptop

[John Kohler]

Hello Everybody,

I appreciate all your help when I installed Red Hat on my Desktop PC 
several years ago.

I just got an HP laptop, and have new challenges:

> I am using Red Hat 7.2 linux.
>
> This is an HP pavilion ze4101.
>
> I formatted the hard drive when I received it. I selected from the 
> BIOS menu the option to load from the CD ROM drive, and when given the 
> boot prompt: I passed the “no pcmcia” value to the installer kernel.
>
> The graphic installation proceeded well, and I chose all the default 
> options during the installation, except the option to create a boot 
> disk as the laptop has no floppy drive.
>
> Upon restart, the kernel reports its prgress on the laptop screen as 
> follows:
>
> 296k init, 0k highmem
>
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries:8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table enties: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> CPU: L1 I cache: 64K (64 bytes/line, D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU: L2 Cache: 256K(64 bytes/line)
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon (tm) SP 1500+ stepping 00
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Checking ‘hlt’ instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at Oxfd87b, last bus=2
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000007
> Bank 3: b40000000000083b at 00000001fc0003b3
> Kernel panic: Unable to continue

Any Ideas?

John Kohler
Daly City, CA