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 >