For the archives: I had an odd installation hang on an older Athlon MB; KT133 I believe. SuSE 10.0 and Fedora Core 5 installers ran fine; CentOS 4.2 and 4.3 hung with the last line on the screen referencing running /sbin/loader (or is that /sbin/installer....don''t typically see it enough to remember); the cursor froze at that point. SuSE 10.0 successfully installed on this box. After trying all the normal tricks, like turning ACPI off, using the BIOS IRQ table, etc, I noticed that the FC5 installer mentioned something about disabling IRQ6. IRQ6?!? That''s the floppy controller; but there''s no floppy drive configured or cabled. Hmmm.... no place in the BIOS to disable the floppy controller ?!? Ok, let''s tell it it has a 3.5 1.44MB floppy (even though it doesn''t!), and not to stop on floppy errors. Lo and behold, that fixed the hang. Something in the CentOS 4 installer that runs right after /sbin/loader was hanging, unless it had a floppy out there, even when there was no floppy out there. But, and I repeat, SuSE 10.0 installed flawlessly, and the FC5 installer came up fine. But the CentOS 4 installer did not until I told the BIOS to lie about having a floppy. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu