[ale] Cannot install Linux on new PC

[Dow Hurst]

Greg,
Just got an idea.  You may need to specify at the LILO prompt for the 
installer the pentium=nomem option since you have an Athlon CPU.  You 
might have timing problems as well running at rated CPU speeds.  Try 
clocking down some before giving up.
Dow


Greg wrote:

>Note: This is totally different from my other problem posting. I have been
>*very* busy lately !
>
>	I have been having problems installing Linux on a new PC. It uses an Athlon
>700MHz Slot A processor on a MSI MS6167 mobo with a half a GB of RAM.  I
>have used both a 4GB Maxtor and a 30GB Western Digital hard drives, both 40
>and 80 pin cables, 3 different CD-ROM players, and tried both SuSE 8.0 and
>RH 7.3.  I fdisk'd the MBR's on both disks.  I fdisked the whole disks.  If
>I thought it would help I would fdisk my cat when he rubs the PC.  I even
>returned the RH CDs and got new ones.  All Linux installs start ok and
>during the install several components/packages (they are random) do not
>install and soon the install gets a kernel panic and dies.  I have tried
>every combination of disk, cable, distro, and method (w/ and w/o X), noprobe
>and probe and using PNP and w/o PNP.  I have the HD as a master on the
>primary IDE and the CD as master on the secondary IDE.
>
>	The only thing I have not changed is the mobo.  It is a MSI MS6167 and a
>week ago I did put in a 4GB HD with SuSE 8.0 on it and it worked - even with
>the SAMBA !  I did also a test install of *gasp* Windows 95, Windows 98 and
>NT 4.0 and all 3 worked, so it is something about Linux installs that the
>dammed PC does not like.
>
>	If this cannot be fixed I guess the only option is to replace the mobo,
>which I don't want to do.  As Sherlock said, (paraphrased) "When all other
>solutions are proven incorrect, whatever is left, however unlikely, is the
>correct solution".  I assume hitting it with a sledgehammer (a la "process
>this " of Dogbert fame) is not a valid solution.
>
>	Any suggestions/ideas ???  Any one want a mobo for $36.00 ???  Works good
>with MS .....
>
>	Greg C.
>
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