It was the disk selector (F1, F2, etc). It beeps every 15 seconds or so and as well when I hit any of the keys.

I have 32 MB of RAM. I tried going in and setting the partition to active but this didnt make a difference. I only have one hard disk. I did boot a fixit floppy and mounted and looked at the filesystem, and noticed that the kernel* file under the / directory is still the old kernel from the old installation I had on the system, not the 5.4 kernel. When I try to delete the file it first asks me if I would like to override r-xr-xr-x root/0 schg. I hit y, and it then says operation not permitted. I do not know why it will not let me delete this file. I try doing a chmod a+w kernel on it, but it wont let me do that either. What is going on here? Maybe this could have something to do with why it wont boot. I also tried moving it, and agian, not dice. I suppose that if I can modify it, perhaps the installer cant either.