[CentOS] laptop install centos 5

[Dale Sykora]

> Hi all,
> I was just installing centos 5 on my new dv9000 hp laptop.
> Installed fine. on first boot, I got through welcome, 
> firewall, selinux was on date time screen and did Forward to 
> goto next screen (Create User) and the machines locks up. can 
> ping any more or anything....
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jerry
I have a dv9000 (amd turion) and had lockups with both ubuntu 6.10 and
fc6.  Adding noapic to the kernel boot parameter seemed to fix it.