On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 15:36 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > On 25/09/06, Mace Eliason <meliason at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to install Centos 4.4 on my laptop with no success. <snip> > > Will it boot single user mode? At the grub prompt hit a key, hit 'e' > to go into edit on the kernel line and append 'single'. > > Try the non-SMP kernel if it's defaulted to SMP. Try various boot > options, noapic seems to help a few people, see if any of them give > you any joy... > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/ap-bootopts.html > > Will. I would also suggest that you take a look at acpi=off. Some folks have reported problems if this is not used. It's not listed in the doc that Will refs, but it can be found here (if you have access) - should be one line, but it wrapped. file:///usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.9/Documentation/kernel- parameters.txt > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill