🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello,

I am quite new to the Linux world though I used to develop on a Solaris/Unix
workstation as a SW engineer.
I am now trying to install Linux Suse 7.3 on a new PC.
When I try to boot from the Suse CD 1, CD 2 or the bootdisk, I face the same
problem:
the system gets to hang completely (no keyboard interaction possible) and I
get a blank (black) screen after a few secs.
When I try to boot and load in text mode (F2) the following is displayed on
the screen:

Memory: 254920k/262064k available (1257k kernel code, 6756k reseverved, 379k
data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
.....CPU clock speed is 2423.8659 Mhz.
.....host bus clock speed is 0.0000 Mhz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice: 0
 _ (blinking cursor but disabled keyboard, can't do anything but turn off
power and reboot... in Windows XP)


Configuration of the system (main components):

ASUS Mainboard P4B533 -Sound
Intel Pentium IV - 2.4 Ghz - s478 - 533 Mhz FSB
DDR module 256Mb - PC2700 (333)
N-Vidia MX400 - 64Mb -AGP - TV-Out GeForce2
M Audio Delta 1010 LT
Mentor Ethernet adaptor - 10/100 - PCI

Bios Info:
Vendor: Award Software Inc.
Version: ASUS P4B533 ACPI BIOS Revision 1011.
Starting address: F000
Release date: 9/27/2002
ROM Size 512K

To my current knowledge Revision 1011 is the most recent Bios release
available.

I have repartitioned my HD (WD 80 GB) into a NTFS partition 40GB and a Linux
EXt2 (131/83h Linux native says bootitng) partition 40GB using
PartitionMagic (which seems OK)
Windows XP is running fine but I would prefer to use Linux...

I searched the internet but I didn't find anything that could be of any
help.
Can someone help my out, please?

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated,

Philip