Recomm. Linux for hopeless AMD / VIA / nVidia combination

[iv_]

Hello,

Linux n00bie that I am, I have recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on a P3-550 with absolutely no problems at all ( this is the cool part ). But ...

When I tried it on a AMD TB 1.2 / VIA KT133 combination I got Kernel Panic, which I think is very bad. The error was:

[1] CPU Context Corrupt



So after some serious checking and (un)plugging of cables, it still didn't work. After some serious Google, I was a little wiser ( in Linux general ) but had not solved my particular problem.


The general recommendation on the net is: get another Linux distribution, like Red Hat or Debian.


Any thoughts on this?



TIA!

 

[Vehementi]

Wait wait wait...You didn't take the HDD with Linux on it straight out of P3 system and into the TBird system did you??

If so...

Reinstall, my young Padawan.

 

[iv_]

Heh no, it is a different computer altogether. BTW after some research I found out that my CPU / mobo temps are 58 / 23 which is too high ... I guess Linux doesn't like this ( Windows 2000 has always run ok on it ).

I will try Debian this weekend and see how that goes. If it also doesn't work, I will try to properly cool everything, besides the standard CPU fan. Or maybe it's the GeForce that makes it overheat ... anyway, got to inspect that system to the bone.