Kernel Panic, Part 4

At 12:00 PM 9/29/03 -0700, you wrote:
Dear kwan -

That is an extremely interesting, educational, and possibly useful reply to 
my query (Kernel Panic, Part 2), and I thank you very much.

Dear Mo McKinlay -

That appears to be bullseye information on my little Kernel Panic Problem. 
I will report to the list when I get the thing to work, so that people will 
know what the issue(s) was(were).

Dear Alex Butcher -

Your points are well taken. Regarding your non-controversial comment

>I'm not going to argue the point, but it depends what you need to do. I'd 
>say that for ~80% of desktop computer usage (i.e. email, web, office, IM, 
>MP3) Linux (Red Hat's distro, at least) is there. If you need to run 
>specific applications (Autocad, Quark, ...) it's probably not, though you 
>may be able to find similar enough applications that allow you to achieve 
>the same end-result.

I have no compelling reason to switch operating systems. I haven't seen a 
"blue screen of death" in years, W98 may have frozen up on me once last 
year, I don't remember. I have a Windows 2000 box in my little LAN with 
router and W98 box. The family uses that box constantly, and recently I did 
have to wipe it clean and re-install everything because my wife was not 
merely annoyed by popups and spam type problems. (I have never had a 
problem installing W98,  W2K, or XP, and I have done these things quite a 
few times, including on boxes that I built up.) Under W98 I use 
Mathematica, Visio Technical, Camtasia video recorder, Quicktime Pro, some 
free/shareware utilities like MCell, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, 
Eudora Pro 5.2, SnagIt32, and a couple of windows applications I wrote 
under W3.1 and they still work under W98 and XP. IF I DID want to run the 
office on Linux I would probably go for Lindows, that looks like a terrific 
business model and product to me. I have also recently owned (and sold) a 
G4 Macintosh and I had Quicktime Virtual Reality Authoring Studio, Final 
Cut Pro 3.0, and Cleaner 5. I tend to use whatever system provides 
something for which I have a compelling need and cannot get elsewhere. What 
I would most appreciate is a SINGLE box that emulates arbitrary processors 
like the G5 and the latest Intel job, so that I could have a Mac OS X/PC 
XP/Linux box at the flip of switch, with all data files shared (and 
protected from cross system annihilation).

Thank you all for your kind consideration of my little kernel panic problem.
Sincerely,
Ellis D. Cooper