Alastair Neil wrote:
I have a Dell Optiplex 320 with a Pentium dual Dual Core CPU ( 2160).
I am trying to boot off of a usb thumb drive with the disk images from
the respective full DVD.isos.
Both fail to get past probing the serial ports on boot. The i386
thumb drive has been used successfully to install a Dell 270.
Currently both hyperthreading and speedstep are enabled. I have tried
a few kernel parameters, such as pci=nomsi, acpi=off and noacpi to no
avail.
Has anyone succeeded in installing F8 on this hardware?
regards, Alastair
Always seems to be video related for the optiplexes here.
Go into the Dell BIOS and change the video priority from Auto to on-board.
We have also seen one or two that needed to change SATA mode to regular
SATA, NOT emulated IDE.
I hope one of those does it for ya.
Good luck.
