Good news: 4.8 installer started

Bad news: i can't get past the kernal configuration screen

There were no driver conflicts listed, to i quit (q) and then saved (y) and then it showed the system probing for hardware. It fills about 3/4 of the screen and then stops The disk stops spining and nothing works.

I've spent all day on this, just when i thought i had cought a break, i couldn't be so lucky