[newbie] mandrake boot problem

[Joel Fitzgerald]

Hi All, I've been in the computer game a long time but new to linux... I just got an old compaq 6000 PC, 200mhz Pentium Pro, with a 6gig IDE Maxtor HDD, IDE cdrom, Matrox MGA video card. Blank HDD to install linux on.   I installed mandrake a few days ago fine, no problems the instalation went great. The from console mode i did a reboot command. It reset and came up with the GRUB boot screen started linux automatically then almost right away says uncompressing kernel and the machine reboots.   I tried failsafe mode did the same thing. So thought easy fix, format the drive and reload linux back on. Did that, but on the first bootup after installation, the same problem occured. I've tried everything from different video cards to resetting the bios etc.   Any ideas? I'm ready to give up.   Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED]