DVD Install of F8T1 failed on Dell Inspiron 860

[Peter Jones]

Pat Kane wrote:
>  > One pretty big hammer which quite often worked in such situations is
>  > 'acpi=off'.
> 
> That does not help.   I am starting to think that the problem is in
> the bootloader
> or very early in the Linux startup process.
> 
> What program prints  the messages:
>     "Loading initrd.img ..."
>     "Ready."

Those are both syslinux (well, isolinux in this case).  Can you try 
adding "earlyprintk=vga" to the kernel command line?  That will 
(hopefully) show us if it's actually getting to the kernel, and if so, 
then how far.

-- 
   Peter