[ale] Strange happenings, can't boot either CentOS or Fedora core 4 from either disk or CD.

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim)]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
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>> Anyway, I have both a FC4 and CentOS CD and neither of them boot.  It
>> gets to the boot: line, I hit enter and it loads linuz, initrd,  clears
>> the screen and ...  nothing.  Same as the disk image.  I tried adding
>> the acpi=off and debug to the boot line, but it didn't help.
>>     
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>> Anyway does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
>>     
>
> Jim,
>
> Most of the time I've had boot CD issues it has been a problem with
> the video.  Specifically I've had several flat-screen monitors (LCD)
> not work.  I've found if I just put a CRT on it, then I can get things
> to work a lot easier.
>
> Greg
>   
This is a CRT.  I see the underline cursor blinking in the top left so I
think the video system is working still.

Thanks,
Jim.