[ale] booting?, & can I throw any old bulb into my backlight

[Rafos701 at aol.com]

My name is Glenn Foster, and I have a red screen. I have been looking, both 
at sources for replacement, and into the hardware. Is the advisory I've read 
on the inverter output true, (that inverter voltage levels are dangerous,) 
and more importantly, are those nifty case lights (with lenses in many 
colors) for people wanting to avoid abstractions picky about being spliced 
and wedged into my laptop's display?
More Linux-specific, The boot (a evaluation RH 6.1 kit from last installfest) 
gets as far as "OK, uncompressing the kernel. (maybe it says booting the 
kernel, but it's the uncompressing part which is usually heralded with, 
"...................." ) Booting with an SuSE syslinux floppy to the "boot 
installed system" gets a motionless lit cursor instead of an underscore. I 
change fstab from "label" to "/dev/hdx." I think PQMagic has been dicking 
with the drive. 

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