On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > Mark Snyder wrote: >> I do not know, but I suspect that the problem has something to do with >> the fact that /boot is type ext2 while the rest of the file system is >> type ext3. I must have done this accidentally installing the system. >> It would take up to much of my time to reinstall the whole system again >> on the laptop, setup repositories, install wine, install wireless, >> install gstm and configure etc etc. > > I doubt this is the source of your problem, but google can tell you how > to convert an ext2 fs to ext3 (tune2fs). Very easy, nothing to reinstall. > I agree. Are you sure that the hardware is supported on CentOS? I don't recognize the specific model you mentioned, so I don't know what CPU, motherboard, memory, etc. you have. Have you tried timeout=0? Have you checked all the PROM settings? I'm just fishing here 'cuz nothing so far rings a bell.... HTH mhr