Jason,

What hardware platform is this?  What cd arch are you trying to use?
What program did you use to make the cd's?

-Connie Sieh
On 
Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Jason Villemaire wrote:

> Greetings SL community,
> 
> I downloaded the iso images for SL41 via website and checked the md5sum. OK.
> 
> Then, created/Burned CD's and placed disc1 in drive.  The system boots to CD
> and the Scientific Linux screen comes up with the options for graphical,
> text, recovery etc.  Either pressing enter or allowing timeout (60 seconds)
> the "loading vmlinz....................." and "loading
> initrd.img..............." lines appear at the bottom looking as if
> everything is going to work.  The system then recycles and does the same
> thing over and over.
> 
> I have had other flavors of linux on this computer in the past such as SUSE,
> Redhat (up through 9) and Debian with not problems installing.
> 
> Is there something obvious I may be overlooking?  I've viewed posts from
> other install problems but they seem to make changes to GRUB once installed
> (acpi).
> 
> Thank you for any help you may provide.  I look forward to utilizing SL.
> I've become frusturated with other distro options and very interested in the
> idea around your community.
> 
> Regards,
> JRV
>