Since the installfest is being moved back a week, I thought I would dig around and see if I could find any details to jump start the kernel work. I found a boot.msg in /var/log/. Reading through it I found:
) there are several mentions of "Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods"
) Starting Firewall Initilization Warning: module nf_conntrack_ipv4 is unsupported, FATAL: Module ip_conntrak not found
ip6tables: invalid argument
) several setfont calls fail
) Skipped servic es in runlevel 5 smbfs irq_balancer splash
) module fglrx not found