On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Patrick Moelands wrote: > There the installation ended in the same way. This might be related? > Bugreport with details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520199 Thanks for that, but doesn't seem related. No promise sata controllers here. On most recent test box in my office (tried this morning), it's IDE not SATA. ALT+F4 screen (Unsure if relevant) ends at <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8 <4>Unable to load NLS charset utf8 <7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format. <4>VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev loop0 on ALT+F3 it ends at load module set done trying to mount CD device hdc 513724kb are available mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /tmp/ramfs/stage2.img fd is 10 Haven't looked at screens at other (SATA) SL5 but they're busy being servers. Does any of that indicate where the problem is? PS SL is fantastic. Thanks**N to the builders+maintainers.