I've tried both noacpi and noapic but none works About the hardware it has a adaptec aic-7890 scsi controller (Bios version 2.20A) and a emulex lp8000 (?) The sinthom is the same: after loading vmlinuz screen goes black with a blinking cursor on the top left of the screen -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Novembro de 2006 12:32 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] unable to start installing > I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i > am able to use them in another computers. > anything i can try? Define 'old'. Is this a piece of hardware where you'd want to use the i586 install option to get things going? Some older boards had buggy acpi issues so booting with noapci or possibly even noapic might help. If you could give us some idea of the hardware we can probably offer better advice. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos