DVD Install of F8T1 failed on Dell Inspiron 860

[Pat Kane]

 > Those are both syslinux (well, isolinux in this case).
 > Can you try adding "earlyprintk=vga" to the kernel command line?

That did not produce any more output, the last message  I see is
still "Ready."  BTW, I used yesterday's rawhide boot.iso for the test.

I just took a quick look at the early Linux boot code in
    ./arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
and I think that the function "decompress_kernel()" should be called very early
on, and that  the line:
    putstr("Uncompressing Linux... ");
does not appear to be working.

I wonder why I do not see the message "Uncompressing Linux... " ?

Pat
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