OK, I have verified my DVD is good (sort of). I tried " testdvd" on another machine, it seemed to hang after verifing up to a file that ended html.ru or such (sorry, I lost my notepaper).

But the interesting thing is then I tried to boot, and it worked fine. This is the exact same DVD that would not boot on my dual opteron. The system it deos work on is an old T-bird chip that happens to have a DVD drive on it.

So it seems 4.02 is very sensitive to something in the system (DVD drive, CPU or MB?) and will read the DVD enough to start the load sequence, and then die.