More on RH install

Okay its NOT my disks. I finally gave up and purchased some official RH disks did the install and got the *same* error. However RH 7.1 is now running on the same box without a problem. So at first I thought that perhaps it was the ext3 file system so I changed over to ext2 (after all *that's* working under RH 7.1) but no still same error. Anyone have any ideas on what I'm ruuning up against here?