[Fedora-livecd-list] bootloader --append="noapic" does nothing?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:08 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> I noticed when testing my Live CD on a Dell at the Creative Commons office 
> that it would not boot without the noapic option.  (The kernel complained 
> about this, and told me to send in a debug report for APIC, which I might 
> do later.  We were planning to have this disc out very soon; it'd be great 
> if the above issue were fixable for this release.)
> 
> So, at the advice of 
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1157197&seqNum=4 , I added 
> this toward the start of my Kickstart file:
> 
> bootloader --append="noapic"
> 
> Alas, the resulting disc still does not pass "noapic" to the kernel.  What 
> am I supposed to do?

Which version of livecd-tools are you using for building your image?

But note if you're doing this for a general-purpose image, you almost
certainly don't want to add 'noapic' to the default.  While it may help
the specific machine you've tested on, it will cause problems on _more_
machines.  

Jeremy