On Sat, April 21, 2007 9:50 pm, Paul wrote: > On Sat, April 21, 2007 8:08 pm, Matt Martz wrote: >> >> On Sat, April 21, 2007 4:09 pm, Paul wrote: >>> I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it can't >>> even >>> read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper laptop, and that >>> one >>> loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I try in the Pro-star laptop. >>> What >>> would cause that? I've never seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD >>> x86 >>> 32bit DVD. Thanks. >>> >> >> I ran into this problem extensively with FC6 which RHEL5/CentOS5 is >> equivalent to for the most part. >> >> When you get to the "boot" prompt type some random characters and hit >> enter. For example type "kjsdflkjsalkfjsalkdjf" and press enter. It >> will >> give you an error. Then type "linux" and press enter or just press >> enter. >> It should work just fine now. I don't know what causes it but I read >> in >> on fedoraforums.org some time ago and no one had an answer. >> >> The guy who found the solution actually typed in some nice words and >> pressed enter because he was pissed. Then hit enter again and it >> worked. >> >> Let me know if this worked becuase I am sure others will run into the >> same >> problem if it is what I think it is. > > It didn't work. ;( I think someone had a similar answer, but this one includes the whole path which did work: "/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img" and hit Enter http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1861 Also, Centos 5 Rocks, it just works so well. :)