Red Hat and the ATC-5200 Motherboard

[jebklb]

I was just given an ATC-5200 motherboard and I am attempting to load
Red Hat (or any flavor on linux) on it, and have been unsuccessful.

Can anyone tell me if the ATC-5200 is compatibile any linux versions?

 

[Peter]

Welcome to Anandtech!

"Unsuccessful" is a bit too vague to let us help you. Describe the problem as precisely as you can please.

 

[jebklb]

Thanks for the response.

First of all, the auto detect function of the BIOS finds the hard drive and the CDROM that I am using.

Knowing that, I have attempted to boot to linux (RH 5.1, 7.1, 8.0 and Mandrake 7.0 and SuSe 6.3)
from CDROM. Using the RH 5.1, I am able to get alway the way thru disk partition, and package load
before it bombs out on me. With RH 7.1 I get an error that no OS can be found and with RH 8.0 it
starts its load, finds the hard drive and appears to be loading fine, until I get the following errors:

running install...
running /sbin/loader
install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
sending termination signals...done

If needed, I can provide painful details.

Joe

 

[Peter]

Signal 11 is your average flaky hardware crash.

Inspect the unit's CPU cooling, and test the RAM. www.memtest86.com.