On Nov 13, 2007 6:38 PM, Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craig,
thanks for the tips adding pci=noapci and clocksource=acpi_pm indeed allowed me to start the install. I have added myself as a CC on the bugs you mentioned so, I'll keep my fingers crossed. A complication on my part is that these are to be dual boot systems. I havn't used lilo in years so I'm going to have to brush up on my dual boot lilo configuration.
Thanks again, Alastair
----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
Craig,
thanks for the tips adding pci=noapci and clocksource=acpi_pm indeed allowed me to start the install. I have added myself as a CC on the bugs you mentioned so, I'll keep my fingers crossed. A complication on my part is that these are to be dual boot systems. I havn't used lilo in years so I'm going to have to brush up on my dual boot lilo configuration.
Thanks again, Alastair
