I cant get debian installed, booting problems

[SwirlingVenom]

Well, I have downloaded most every single bloody distro out there. It's becming quite annoying that none will install. Iv gotten ubuntu,debian,fedora,ark, and suse. None of them will install. I really want to get debian installed but every time I get to the boot screen. I press enter and the screen flashes and computer restarts. This happens with most of the distro's I get. My computer stats are as follows

HP Pavillion a705w, I put in a pentium 4 myself 2.2ghz/533mhzFSB
1 gig DDR ram
40 gig FAT32 drive
7 gig ext 3 drive
256MB ATI RADEON 9250
48x CD-R/RW drive, not sure on the make.
MOTHERBOARD: MS-6577 M-ATX (Giovani, Giovani2)

I tried several boot cheats like noapic and nolapic also hw-detect/pcmcia_start=false (something close anyway) I wanted to know if it is my hardware doing it? whats' going on, I made sure to download the 1386 debian version. I also have 4 flash drives, like four slots in the front of the computer and im not too entierly sure what goes into them, but they are there, thats for sure. So yes, any help? anything at all I can do, I would really like to get atleast ANY distro installed.

[Vergil83]

1) Have you tried one of the live distro's?
2) Have you run Memtest86 to make sure your memory is ok?

[SwirlingVenom]

I can get knoppix to work, thats about it. I have to use the failsafe cheat.

[drakebasher]

Is the processor heat sink securely and squarely placed, with a good amount of heat sink compound? What you descibe is exactly what was happened with a 1.3GHz AMD Duron machine I found that had been left for trash. I reset the heat sink and it works perfectly, now.

[redhead69]

Well, I have downloaded most every single bloody distro out there. It's becming quite annoying that none will install. Iv gotten ubuntu,debian,fedora,ark, and suse. None of them will install. I really want to get debian installed but every time I get to the boot screen. I press enter and the screen flashes and computer restarts. This happens with most of the distro's I get. My computer stats are as follows

HP Pavillion a705w, I put in a pentium 4 myself 2.2ghz/533mhzFSB
1 gig DDR ram
40 gig FAT32 drive
7 gig ext 3 drive
256MB ATI RADEON 9250
48x CD-R/RW drive, not sure on the make.
MOTHERBOARD: MS-6577 M-ATX (Giovani, Giovani2)

I tried several boot cheats like noapic and nolapic also hw-detect/pcmcia_start=false (something close anyway) I wanted to know if it is my hardware doing it? whats' going on, I made sure to download the 1386 debian version. I also have 4 flash drives, like four slots in the front of the computer and im not too entierly sure what goes into them, but they are there, thats for sure. So yes, any help? anything at all I can do, I would really like to get atleast ANY distro installed.

i have a MS-6577 aswell made by compaq/hp. i tried installing feodora core 6 and when it was loading something i got this that filled my screen and i quote 'unknown interrupt or fault at EIP 00000060 c04002bl 000002b0 i have no clue what this means and i really want to install feodora. anyone kno what this means?

[craigevil]

Take a look at this :
FC% installtion problem.. unkown interrupt at EIP 00000060 - LinuxQuestions.org
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=459446

[redhead69]

i did acpi=off and it is installed and working. but i learned the hard way if u want to have xp on your primary drive and zod on your slave you must set the drive to cable select and connect the master end of the cable to the drive and then do linux acpi=off and it should install fine. i tried to install it to my slave drive with the master drive connected, but after installing i got an error saying there was an error loading os. with the slave set as the master and no other hds hooked up it installed and ran just fine. i set up feodora core 6 then shutdown when it eas all done, and re connected the master drive and set it to cable select on the jumper block, same for the slave, and it ran just fine. i press escape when starting the comp to choose which drive to boot from and it works just fine. my master drive is running xp pro, and my slave has feodora core 6 (zod) and they both work just fine.

[devils casper]

i press escape when starting the comp to choose which drive to boot from and it works just fine. my master drive is running xp pro, and my slave has feodora core 6 (zod) and they both work just fine.

you dont have to change boot device everytime. plug-in Fedora disk as master and Windows disk as slave and add an entry for Windows in its grub.conf file. check this thread.






Casper