Installation failure - suggestions needed...

[Matthew Lenz]

Wish I would have even gotten that far.  Tried to install on a newer
Dell desktop at work yesterday and it kernel panic'd towards the end of
the kernel load.  Installs just fine on my current machine (dell a
couple years old).  How does one even diagnose a situation like that?
Is there some kernel boot arg that just writes a log to a floppy drive
or something?  Its a Newish (last couple months) Dell 8400 series. SATA,
PCI express.