OK. I'm not familiar with that motherboard designation, but aside from that,
there are no *obvious* incompatibilities with the hardware you mention. I
assume for now that the host also has an ordinary video card and an atapi
CD-ROM drive that you forgot to mention, but nothing else. My own
experience is with Slackware, so I'll focus on that distribution and your
experience with it.
If the only message you get from Slackware (specifically, a floppy made from
the bare.i bootdisk image in Slackware version 3.x) is "Loading Linux"
(presumably followed by some number of periods that you don't mention, and
preceded by the boot parameters query that you also don't mention), the
install is NOT failing at the hardware probe -- it is failing to load the
kernel. This is likely to mean one of four things:
1. A bad bootdisk. If you can boot the same disk on other PCs, we can
dismiss this possibility. (We can't dismiss it based on 3 distributions
failing, if you used the same floppy drive to make all 3 bootdisks. I am
assuming they were physically different disks, not the same disk used 3 times.)
2. A bad floppy drive. If you boot the machine in Windows or DOS, can you
read from and write to the floppy? Try with a floppy full of files, not just
one, since the problem may occur only on the inner tracks.
3. Bad memory.
4. A bad CPU. Possibly overclocked.
None of these are compabilility issues; they simply mean the machine has a
defective component (or, in the first case, the machine you used to make the
boot floppies has a bad drive).
BTW, in this response, I've assumed you have no other hardware installed
than what you mentioned (plus an ordinary video card and an atapi CD-ROM),
you haven't made any changes to the BIOS settings, and that you can run some
other OS on this PC. If any of these assumptions are wrong, they may guide
you to the source of the problem.
If you need to post again, please consider the number of assumptions I had
to make in this reply when deciding how completely to report your experience.
At 08:04 PM 4/23/99 +0200, Israel Hernando wrote:
>Hi, it�s Israel
>My problem is:
>I tried with Slackware, Red Hat 5.2, SUSE (5.2 and 5.3) and no run on my PC
>I boot PC with boot disk, and I can see: something like Loading Linux,
>but It spontaneously reboots while probing hardware.
>I tried i 4 PC and no problem. I think that is a hardware problem, but
>WHAT?
>My PC spec:
> motherboard: SQ573
> IDE hard disk 2GB
> 64 MB SIMM 72 pin ram
> Internal modem supraespress 336i
> pentium 200 MMX processor
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