[AuckLUG] Trouble booting ubuntu 6.06

[Mastercho]

been reading the list and what not for a while now. 1st posting..

i have recently aquiried an old PC and am trying to install ubuntu 6.06
server onto it, so we can use it as a print server / anything else that i
can fit on a 2.6GB HDD, it seems to install all ok. but when i remove the
cd and it reboots itself it gets to saving the default or something (im a
newbie) then the boot line. but all it does is reboot my machine. don't
know why, the install seemed to go fine, although it thinks my 10baseT NIC
is a firewire device for some reason.

screen output before the reboot is as follows

Booting  'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-26-server

root  (hd0,0)
  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-server root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x16c98f]
initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-server
   [Linux-initrd @ 0x794e000, 0x6a1478 bytes]
savedefault
boot

then it proceeds to reboot. post, load the above and repeat.
i will be trying to install with the alternative install CD to see if that
works. if that does not ill try the desktop cd install. i think after that
ill be out of blank cd's.. have tried to install fedora on this as well.
but ran outta HDD space. so no luck there.