Abit BP6 | 440BX will not run on SuSE 7.2

I am having a lot of problems installing SuSE 7.2 on a Abit BP6 | 440BX dual processor celeron motherboard running UMDA66. The install seems to work okay in yast1. I am doing a minimal install, and selecting the non-SMP 2.4 kernel. The root partition is on /dev/hde2 and lilo is written to the MBA on dev/hde. lilo writes out okay. After installation when the system is first booted everything was core dumping and I could not log in. I restarted the system and now when I boot I get 'System Halted'. Has anybody had any luck with this motherboard and using udma? Thanks for any help.