Brief History: I recently obtained a Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255 laptop and obviously envisioned RH 8 running on it. Unfortunately, after initializing the installation, the box hangs at the "Booting the Kernel." message (no kernel version banner). I was able to get Red Hat 7.0 (with the 2.2 kernel) running on it and then I even got 2.4.18 to boot. Now, I would like to create a custom set of RH 8 install cds (using another box that is running 8.0) so that I can install psyche and have "restore CDs" for the future. What I have done so far: I was able to figure out that the problem rested in the APIC support included with the 2.4 kernel. By removing this from the config and recompiling, I was able to get a kernel going that should work with 8.0. In order to do this, I am speculating that the vmlinuz kernel included with the default 8.0 install will have to be replaced with a kernel that does not have APIC included. I started researching the install process; Syslinux and Anaconda; and I browsed this mailing list (anaconda-devel-list) in hopes that someone might have posted instructions as to how to create a new vmlinuz / initrd.img or at least what options were used to create the stock one that is shipping with the installation? Incidentally, I already downloaded the beta 8.0.93 and tried that with the same result (hung at "Booting the kernel.") I apologize if this is the wrong list to be posting this to, but it seemed the most reasonable. Thank you for your time and consideration. -Matt Howell mhowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
