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. ;(