Suse Fails To Install On Pavilion

I know linux has tended to have problems with Hewlett Packard computers. Just I was wondering what might be wrong. I'm trying to install OpenSuSE 10.3 on an HP Pavilion a814x. The problem is it fails to load onto. I can't tell if it's a kernel panic or not (it probably is... I thought I saw the "Aieee!" thing but I'm not sure), but after a little bit the install freezes. I also tried looking at it in verbose mode, but things go by too fast to see until it freezes. Here is what it looks like when it freezes (all activity freezes):



(Sorry for blurry pics, I have a c*** camera)

And yeah I checked the memory, it came out fine. I shall also note that Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware will not install on the machine either. But Windows 2000, XP, and Vista go on it without struggle.

No one knows?

I can't make out heads or tails from your screen caps, though I don't think it's a kernel panic, simply a module or service that is crashing, but I would suggest following the usual steps when linux won't boot. Start trying the kernel parameters.

You haven't specified the actual configuration of your system (ie. AMD/Intel processor, chipset, etc.) so it's hard to tell if there is a specific kludge. But you can start with trying nolapic, then noapic, and if all else fails, acpi=off.

If you post your specs, someone else might be able to provide better direction...

Cheers,
KV

Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz, 512MB DDR memory, Nvidia GeForce MX4000.

Edit: I've tried nolapic, noapic, and acpi=off, and it always fails. I was able to get a glimpse of one of the lines right before it goes haywire, there was something among the lines of "Dave Jones" (no quotes) in it.

I'll see if I can get a video of it flipping out.

pci=nommconf gets me farther than before,but it still fails.

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kernel BUG at arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:38!

invalid opcode: 0000 [#5]

SMP

last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/product

Modules linked in: intel_agp agpgart iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support processor button 12c_core ieee1394 uhci_hcd snd_seq_device rtc_lib snd soundcore aufs squa shfs loop nls_utf8 st ide_disk BusLogic ide_cd usb_storage ide_core sd_mod 8139cp sr_mod cdrom 8139too mii ehci_hcd usbcore sg ata_generic ata_plix libata scsi_mod

CPU: 0

EIP: 0060:[<c011c72c>] Tainted: G N VLI

EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.22.5-31-default #1)

EIP is at kmap_atomic_prot+0x34/0xb7

eax: c0004edc ebx: c1399e00 ec: 00000003 edx: 00000003

esi: 0000000c edi: 00000163 ebp: df013fac esp: df013e38

ds: 007b es:007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068

Process loop1 (pid: 1373, ti=df012000 task=db2e1030 task.ti=df012000

Stack: de60c494 de60c49c de60c4ac c013a97 00000000 00000400 de013f54 df013fac

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Call Trace:

[<(hex)>] ktime_get_ts+0x16/0x44

[<(hex)>] transfer_none+0x15/0x82 [loop]

[<(hex)>] blockable_page_cache_readahead+0x4c/0x9f

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Code: (hex characters)

EIP: [<c011c72c>] kmap_atomic_prot+0x34/0xb7 SS:ESP 0068:df013e38

note: loop1[1373] exited with preempt_count 1

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