ok i have a few problems and an answer to 1 of them would be good, i am not a compleat newb but not a expert,,,ok here goes:

when i boot in to yoper it just restarts the pc after about 3 seconds!! wots going on?

Gentoo along with dyne:bolic just hang after saying "loading kernal" when installing them

and finaly installing fedora core 2 jsut restarts the pc every time i hit enter at the install window????? works fine on my laptop! i have tryed all of the command line and poramiters i no!!!

i have

intel celeron 2.7 ghz

40gig

256 mb ram

thats it but help would be very apreciated

thanx very much


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Down with the bill!!!!!!

Have u checked that the CD's aren't corrupt using md5sums?

Erm yes i have i also did a check data or check media? or somthing on them,,,some of them behave differntly on different computers? but it is this one i am trying to sort though

I also am having this problem. I have installed FC 2 and Mandrake 9.2 before with these discs (on another computer) but they wont boot up on the machine I just built. I have tried Mandrake 9.2, 10.0, and FC 2 and they all lock up at the same place. Where it loads the kernels. Could this have to do with my MoBo - Asus A8V Deluxe?

iv fixed it m8...simple entre the boot line

noacpi acpi=off

What do you mean no acpi? You just say "vgahi noacpi " at the prompt?

ok when u turn it on and it says hit entre type in 'noacpi acpi=off'

Thanks, I'll try that when I get home.

It said couldnt find the kernel noacpi and then it went to the "welcome to mandrake Linux (10.0) " freeze screen...