Pls help!
I have a PIV 1,6, 256 RAM, 40 gb maxtor 6Lo4J2, MB Epox 4SDA+, chipset SIS 645.
Cannot install any distribution (tried RH7, 7.2, MDK8, 8.1, 8.2).
After the first screen appears something like:

fbo: VESA VGA frame buffer device

block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32

RAMDISK driver initialized:16RAM disk of 32000K size 1024 block size

Uniform multiplaform E-IDE DRIVER rev:6-31

ide: assuming 33Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes; override ide bus=xx

sis5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18
sis5513: chipset revision 202
sis5513: not 100% native mode, will probe irq later
sis 645 ide 0 : BM-DMAat 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdl-pio
Unable to handle remote paging request at virtual adress 0006e000
printig eip:
c02195e6
Oops:0000
CPU:0
EIP:0010 [], not tained
EFLAGS: 00010292
...
and ends with:
kernekl panic.Attempted to kill init

As a last resort you might try your hard
drive in another PC for the Linux install.
Then move the drive to your problem PC.
It worked for me with Red Hat 7.3.