Hi, I've decided to come back to Linux. Again. I have several LiveCD Distros that will not load w/o crashing during the initial load. The text displayed during the load always ends with an INIT and SYNC failure msg along with PANIC msg. The failing system is an HP Elite 8000 Desktop that runs W10 Ver 1809 w/0 issue.. All distros work OK on other WIN systems. I have several systems. Is there something strange/goofy about the vanilla HP? Suggestions pls TIA, RobertHall

NAICT, that Elite 8000 was engineered around the time TPM was new. Is there a BIOS setting for disabling TPM that is not already set, or a hardware jumper for similar effect? If not, maybe you can put its HD in some other PC with similar hardware, Q45, G41, G43, Q43 or G45 chipset, E8nnn or Q8nnn or equivalent Celeron series CPU, install, then return HD to the HP. Dell Optiplex 760 and 780 were very similar. Those chipsets and CPUs apparently were very popular.

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MrMazda- TU for the suggestions--I will attack the BIOS/TPM issue first, then fire up my OPTIFLEX745 with the other idea 2nd. I will report success or not next day or so. A NEW Question;; I am starting to build my Linux library. The books at Barnes and Noble are either too simple or written for a Phd. Nothing in between. Which title on your ref table should be my first acquisition? Thanks again for the reply re: HP. RobertHall

Probably the only computer book I bought after getting Internet connected was ISBN 0-7821-2341-4. LoCCN 98-86867, from SYBEX ©1999 by Arman Danesh: Mastering™ Linux. The Internet is an easier search tool that doesn't get out of date as fast as a book.

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MrMazda-TU for the book suggestion. The author Arman Danesh has written a veritable library's worth of Linux materials, all with execellent reviews. I will start by ordering the Mastering title. RH

MrMazd,
Your suggestion to try the HP failing Live Distros on a Dell Optiflex was a good one. The Optiflex475 does support TPM but is defautled off. Most of the distros were ok loading, but Fedora was a problem; an issue for another day. I will now move the HP disk to the Optiflex to load a no-problem-on-the-Optiflex Distro on to the HP drive as a dual boot while in the Optiflex hardware. I will report the results. TU. RH

MRMAZDA, I am finally back w/report of HP + linux distro no success issue. I did not use the 'move the hard drive' approach. I instead tested many new and old distros because one did work OK. One old distro, Mint 17.1 i386, will boot and load successfully. This single MINT success prompted me to continue test every distro, old and latest, that I could get my hands on. Of all the old linux i386 distros, I have a dozen, it is the only success point. Interestingly, Mint 19.1, i386, the latest ver, will also fail. All x64 distros, old and current, will fail. Windows, of course, just hums along. This all proves to me that I need to get smarter about Linux before I return to this HP issue.. I now have 2 systems that will run Linux successfully, one with Mint 17.1 and the other my choice of any other i386 ver, old or latest. I have not yet decided on which distro I will settle on. Starting with Mint seems a logical choice. All my systems are ancient Intel Core2Duo systems so I will stick to i386 versions for the time being. Thank you for your help. No doubt I will be back with another newbie issue. RH

I have 11 Core™2 Duo PCs and 1 Core™2 Duo Mac running 64-bit Linux distros from openSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Kubuntu and others. Everything I have on 32-bit is either Pentium 4 or AMD Socket A. I don't see how your problem could be anything other than TPM.

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MrMAZDA, TU for the TPM comment. I will research for an HP Tech Support Forum so that I can dig into HP's BIOS and TPM function. I will keep you posted when I have something solid. I am also going to try the x64's on my gear. Thanks. RH