can't install on asus a7n8x

[Per Bothner]

I rather optimistically bought an Asus a7n8x Deluxe
motherboard (with the Nvidia nForce2 chipset), along with
an Athlon XP 2600+, and tried to install Severn2.  Multiple
times.  Each time it got partway into installing packages and
then a kernel panic or freeze.

I had hoped it would work, since I read (mis-read?) that
the a7n8x runs on RH 9 without patches.  But that doesn't
seem to be the case either - each time I try to do a
gcc boostrap (on a different partition than the one I
tried to install Severn2 on), gcc fails in a different way.

My guess is some disk-related problem, such as DMA.
(I have moved a jumper to disable SATA, so the kernel would
not timeout for the non-existent drives.)  Any suggestions?

[This is a re-port.  The previous posting has spent almost
to 24 hours awaiting "moderator approval", so I decided I
needed to subscribe.]
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