I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

["Karl Matheson" <mkarl1@uswest.net>]

Hey,

I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing
me the stack. It looks like this:

    <SNIP>...</SNIP>
    scsi : 0 hosts
    scisi : detected total
    Partition check:
    hda : hda1 hda2
    RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
    general protection: 0000
    CPU: 0
    EIP: 0010:[<0017f759>]
    EFLAGS: 00010206
    eax: 00000001 ebx: 00004a88 ecx: 0000000 edx: 03fe3d94
    esi: 03fe3d98 edi: 03fe4a9c ebp: 00003d80 esp: 0038f714
    ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0018 gs: 0018 ss: 0018
    Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=0038f000)
    Stack:  0038f78c 00000004 00000000 00000004 03fe4a98 0000000000
0000000000 0000003f
                000001ff 00004a84 00000000 0017fff9 00e40020 00091c14
00000009 00000006
                00000001 0038fca8 00000000 0038fd3c 000000004 00000216
0000001e 0000011e
    Call Trace:  [<0017fff9>]  [<00130c00>]  [<0010ac15>]  [<00121550>]
[<001097fa>]  [<001095
12>]  [<00109519>]  [<0010976c>]
Code: 8d 76 00 8b 15 4c ese 27 00 8a 44 15 00 8b 4c 24  24 88 04 11

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson