815 chipset - kernel-2.6.5-1.315 hosed badly

[Jim Cornette <redhat-jc insight rr com>]

I just tried to boot my computer with the kernel-2.6.5-1.315 kernel and 
noticed that the kernel does not seem to honor the SELinux permissive 
mode that I requested in /etc/sysconfig/selinux. It is set to 
SELINUX=permissive. It asks for policy for both root and a regular user. 
It locks up at a blank screen in graphics mode. The computer does not 
respond to any keyboard entries and has to be hard reset.

With the earlier kernel that I am running. kernel-2.6.4-1.298 does not 
ask me for policy and I can log in and am not asked for an SELinux 
profile on either my root or regular user account.

I don't know if SELInux is causing X to hardlock on loading or if there 
is something wrong within the kernel build for the kernel-2.6.5-1.315 
version. It is hosed badly in my environment.
Since I had to do a boot after a hard reset. I scanned the filesystems 
and reiserfs was checked for it's journal. It is not however working 
after the computer boots up. Another strike against the configuration of 
this kernel version.

Jim