Hi all, I am having a tough time getting FC5 to install on an HP Pavaiilion dv9000 notebook machine. The hardware has just been released and it's not been easy. The initial install went ok, once I supplied acpi=off noacpi on the boot line. When I rebooted, supplying both again, it stopped at "Starting udev:" - it timed out and never went further. After googling a bit I found something that suggested "pci=assign-busses pci=routeirq" - not sure what this does, but on its own, it gets me past udev. When combined with the acpi commands, it's a no-go. Eventually, I got it up in single user mode, started networking (it recognized the nvidia network card) and ran yum update. This got it to d/l 696 MB of stuff but it crashed after updating about 70 packages (froze up again). Since all the packages are cached, I told it to manually install kernel 2.6.17-2174, which worked, then d/l kernel-devel and installed the nvidia driver for the video card. It complained a bit about not knowing what kernel to run etc, but installed anyway. X came up fine and I ran glxgears ok (fastest FPS I have ever seen) but then it just died (in X mode) again. Does anybody have any ideas what I can do to make this machine as stable as my trusted IBM ThinkPad, the machine I'm typing this on, (other than waiting for FC7 ;)? Or is this the price I have to pay to be on the bleeding edge? Best regards, Chris
