Cynthia Kiser spake the following on 2/5/2007 4:14 PM: > Quoting Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>: >> Cynthia Kiser spake the following on 2/5/2007 3:27 PM: >>>>> See if you can boot from the 4.4 live CD. >>>> Just burned one. Off to give it a try. >>> Hmmmmm Writing this from the 4.4 live CD. So that works great. OK back >>> to the office to burn a 4.4 install CD. >> AFAIR the install cd only has a uniprocessor kernel, as only one processor is >> needed for an install. You might be hitting some kernel flaw in the install >> cd's boot kernel. > > Actually I shouldn't have emailed so soon. For the first boot from the > live CD I tried the specified failsafe options suggested in the > prompt: linux nonet simplex acpi=off That booted all the way to a GUI > - and had network support(!?). For my next attempt I just hit return > and it hung. I couldn't find any virtual terminals with error > messages, but that might be me not knowing the right key > combination. Trying to boot with only acpi=off gets me much of the way > - until the live CD tries to run X; then I get a very nice box > bouncing around my screen saying "video mode not supported". The > monitor is kind of crappy and obscure, so that is disappointing, but > not a huge deal - and I think these instructions on the Scientific > Linux site might let me fix that problem. > http://linux.web.psi.ch/livecd/trouble.html > > Burning the disk 1 of 4 iso for CentOS 4.4 and we'll see what that > does. I think the live cd defaults to 1024x768 and 75 HZ, so it might be out of the monitors range. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!