PXES 8 not working (but 5 did)

Hello.  I am trying to upgrade our workplace from 0.5.1-35 to .8.

I had good luck with 5.1, but I was interested in some of the new features.

I have tested my tftp, and it seems to work, I can pull the kernel image just 
fine.  I have increased by ramdrive size to 32M in lilo (for all options):

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label 1
   kernel vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586
   append ramdisk_size=32768 ro video=vesa vga=771 console=null 
initrd=pxes-0.8.
squash root=/dev/ram

label pxes
   kernel vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586
   append ramdisk_size=32768 ro initrd=pxes-0.8.initrd root=/dev/ram

label 2
   kernel vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586
   append ramdisk_size=32768 ro video=vesa vga=771 console=null 
initrd=pxes-0.8.
initrd root=/dev/ram

label initrd
   kernel vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586
   append ramdisk_size=32768 ro video=vesa vga=771 console=null 
initrd=pxes-0.8.
initrd root=/dev/ram
======================</snip>===========================

What happens is this:  I get my graphical lilo screen, and everything looks 
good.  I get a boot: prompt and all my lilo choices.  If I choose the 
default, I get the framebuffer pxes icon at the top of the screen with a 
cursor under it, then it just hangs.

If I choose the novesa option, then I get this:
"Uncompressing Linux... Ok, "
Then it just hangs.

I have rebuild my image a dozen times now, and have it stripped way down with 
X3 now and no fun options.  Nothing helps

Can someone help me please?

Thank you!

Chris


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