On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 17:40 -0500, 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? ---- my fault, I have a number of bugzilla items in on this... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379201 you'll note that on the last one, I did figure out that appending pci=noacpi timesource=acpi_pm kernel parameters will allow you to install/boot but I have never gotten grub to boot on these things and nothing has changed there, thus I continue to use lilo to get these things to boot which means that each kernel update requires a manual run of lilo. I'm hoping that we get these things all worked out as I am working doggedly with the kernel developers on this Craig
