Both text and normal graphic install fail to complete "Loading ata_piix driver"
System has four SATA drives and an IDE DVD writer. FWIW I haven't found a Linux that can deal with the way MSI hacked the IDE bus. XP and Vista32 load without problems but CDROM runs very slowly in XP.
I will take the box back to the dealer for a motherboard swap or something. Nothing in the BIOS settings makes it better.