Kernel loading problem when Install

[Gilles Auclair]

When I tried to install Linux on my computer, it reboot itself when the kernel is loading. I tried some distribution (Knoppix, Debian, Mandrake) and the same problem occurs.

Heres my system :

Hp Pavilion a600y
Celeron 2.53
256 DDR
40 gig HD
1 CD-RW
1 CD

[Steven E. Protter]

On the resouce side of the equation, the system is adequate.

I'd look into possible hardware faults first.

This problem can be triggered by bad memory. That is where I'd check first.

Pavillion Linux support is spotty. Check the various distributions and try to find one that specifically lists your model on the support matrix.



SEP

[Dave Falloon]

Could be the power management stuff messing up. There was some problems with earlier 2.4 kernels where ACPI would screw up the IRQ routing.

Have you tried turning off APM/ACPI?

When the boot: line comes up type this in :
( this should work for knoppix )

linux pci=noacpi

That might help. How far into the boot process do you make it before the reboot?

--Dave

[Gilles Auclair]

I already try to disable ACPI on the installation of Debian and Fedora.. I will try it with Knoppix, but I don't think that will work...

I will also try a complete memory test of my computer.

[Dave Falloon]

How far into the boot does it make it?

Does it reboot at the:
uncompressing linux kernel

or do you actually see the kernel start loading, ie. a line similar to this:

Linux version 2.4.18-1-686-smp (joey@gluck) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian
prerelease)) #1 SMP Wed Apr 14 18:42:49 UTC 2004

--Dave

[Gilles Auclair]

The last things I saw (the text goes very fast) is "Loading the kernel".

Yesterday I retry knoppix with different option and when I use :

knoppix failsafe

The system boot and knoppix seems to work correctly.

But I try to disable all HW detection like this :

knoppix nodma noscsi nousb [...]

And the system reboot again...

[xyko_1]

Hi Gilles.

try to disable plug and play on bios.

When knoppix starts in failsafe almost no hardware detection is donne.

regards,
xyko

[Gilles Auclair]

I've already disable PnP support in my BIOS... this change nothing