Installation

I have a nforce2 based motherboard, ASUS A4N8X, with an older Nvidia AGP graphics card (Radeon 9800 Pro). All other hardware is on the motherboard including two NIC's. One is nforce2-based (MCP) and the other I believe a Marvell. I have 512 MB of memory.

I burned a CDROM image and booted from that. The boot loader works fine and presents a menu of different options. However regardless which one I choose I end up withy a total crash. The screen flashes with random data as it seems and then the PC reboots.

I tried several options, safe, without ACPI etc but no difference.

I also tried PfSense, also as a CDROM image. Same results...

Any ideas how to solve this?

/Barsk

It might be that your NICs aren't supported. Try putting a 3com or a realtek 8139 in and see if that helps. I know the NF stuff can be problematic, even on windows! 

Actually I was wrong on the motherboard name. It was A8N something. According to the docs the NF2 nics should be supported... But I will try sticking in some old NICs to test.