[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100

[Scott Adamson]

Has anyone managed to get any distro to work with an AMD Athlon Thunderbird & an Abit KA7-100 motherboard ? machine runs windows NT fine, installs Redhat, but it fails with a kernel panic when trying to start for the first time, Gentus Linux ( rebadged Redhat supplied with the motherboard) would not even complete the installation and Caldera wouldn't install (fortunately it failed quickly :). The machine is not overclocked.