On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > At the bootup screen, what parameters are you passing. > These have changed since SL5, and it's quite likely that an option has > changes since SL5, *especially* if it is network related. The environment is Compaq CL1850R (dual CPUs, Compaq HW RAID (Smart-2DH)), so I am _appending_ the following: apm=off noapic noht nomce nousb nousbstorage pci=biosirq skipddc pci=biosirq was added per the suggestion of the boot output on the console. The other parameters have been in use for a long time (since FC3 IIRC), but you are correct, they may have changed. I usually put ip=, netmask=, gateway=, and dns=, but simplified the parameter list after the first failure.