[ale] Cannot install Linux on new PC

[Calvin Harrigan]

Have you tried replacing memory?  If you have two sticks try using one.

Calvin...


On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 18:45, 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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