On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:01 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
the pointer is present through the loading of the init steps and when you get where you provide name and password it disappears forever.
Try booting without the Red Hat Graphical Booter, I recall comments about it and some graphics cards not getting along nicely. Remove the "rhgb" option from the kernel line before booting (either edit grub.conf, or change the booting parameters through the GRUB menus).