Unable to Install Fedora 15 on Dell Inspiron 17R2

Mon Nov 7 13:57:24 UTC 2011

On 7 November 2011 10:45, Rajesh <s_ramanujan0 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I tried to install Fedora 15 on Dell Inspiron 17R2 Laptop(Intel 64Bit i7 2630QM Quadracore)
> Installation started, after selecting install it remained for ever with message:
> "Waiting for hardware initialization"
>

Hi:
Have you tried using acpi=force and/or noapic as kernel boot parameters?

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