booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

[stan]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote:

> > I think pentium 4 is fairly old hardware.  I doubt either the kernel
> > developers or Fedora developers are using such hardware, and so you
> > could be hitting a regression that wasn't caught during
> > kernel development because no one is running that hardware.
> 
> Any idea how I would find out for sure?

This bugzilla seems especially pertinent to your problem.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730007