On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Maccy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I attempted a default install of SL 4.0 this afternoon on an Dual > Processor Intel Xeon 2.4GHz Server but after what looks like a successful > install and reboot the system hangs after ... > > booting Scientific Linux (2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp) > <snip> > Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel > audit(1123601991.257:0):initialized > Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting > > Any ideas? I've tried playing around with GRUB options but still the same > result. Hi, Have you tried turning acpi off? Within /etc/grub.conf this would look like: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-11.EL ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=off rhgb quiet ^^^^^^^^ you can choose this when you install a machine using kickstart via: bootloader --location=mbr --append="acpi=off rhgb quiet" ^^^^^^^^ I saw a similar problem to yours under SL40. Turning acpi off fixed the problem. Regards, Will