Mandrake 10 hanging on install

[DarkeKnyte]

Well I dl'd mandrake 10 community edition, was thrown for a loop when it asked for a 4th CD that I didn't have. Luckily, I read these forums to find out I didn't really need it.
Well the install is chugging along and I get to what seems to be a very hard lockup issue at the moment when it wants to install the bootloader.
I thought it was just taking a little time to do it but after and hour and seeing that my mouse no longer functioned(cursor frozen in place) I decided to re-install.
That wouldn't work everything froze up and the CD would not eject. I had to slick the HD again and start from scratch only be taken back to the bootlader issue.

Is anyone else having these isues or knows a workaround?
Any information is greatly appreciated.

[deathadder]

Are you tryin to install the bootloader to the MBR or a boot partiton? Have you tried lilo instead of grub or vice versa? Have you got PnP aware OS disabled in the BIOS?

[mdwatts]

If installing the Linux bootloader in the mbr, do you have the antivirus option enabled in the bios? Disable if you do.

[pumkinut]

Try to install with the following options:

linux noapic nolapic

Mandrake 10 has been causing many problems with funky BIOS implementations of APIC especially on Athlon/Nforce combinations. This is what finally worked for me.