Hello gillian, You can try adding these options to the kernel commandline and it might help: noapic iommu=off

The 2.4/2.6 hybrid kernel that RedHat supplies with RHEL3 has some issues with some AMD64 motherboards AFAIK, and the above options made the CentOS 3's kernel bootable for me on one of our systems.

BTW - I've moved this to the CentOS mailing list, that is a more appropriate forum for this question. Please remove the caos@caosity.org CC if/when anyone replies.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:25:36 +1000, gillian gillian.bennett@celentia.com wrote:

Hi,

Fristly thanks for this awsome distro. It constantly blows me away the stength of the opensource community.

I am currently trying to install centos-3 x85_64 on an amd64 whitebox machine. I downloaded the iso's and have created some CD's over the weekend. The first cd is bootable and to all intents and purposes the install appears to proceed. It gets to the splash menu (I am currently running a manual install just to see how things go) and I hit enter to proceed with the graphical install.

It says:

Loading vmlinuz............. Loading initrd.img............................

Decompressing Linux...done. Booting the kernel.

Then it just hangs. Has anyone else seen this happen and been able to get past this first bit?

Thanks, gb