F17 vs. Pentium 4

[mwesten]

On 03/29/2012 11:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:34 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Felix Miata wrote:
>>
>>> If you want NX for your existing motherboard you'd probably have to find a
>>> Prescott 478, which may never have existed, and even if it does, might not be
>>> supported by your BIOS or any available upgrade for it.
>>
>> I'm not looking for NX.
>> I only mentioned it because in another thread someone suggested that
>> NX might be the reason I couldn't get the F16 installer to boot.
>> For now, I'm going to settle for F15.  That installer booted for me.
>> If the F17 installer won't boot for me,
>> then when F15 goes EOL, so does fedora.
>
> I doubt your CPU has anything to do with 16 not booting. There's no
> intentional change to 16 which would cause that, and I'm pretty sure we
> still have quite a lot of people running on P4s.
>
> It's much more likely to be some kind of BIOS issue or just a bad boot
> medium. Why not just try a 17 image and see if it boots? Bandwidth is
> cheap. Well, mostly.

Indeed.  One of my P4's is a Family 15, Model 2, Stepping 9.
F17 boots OK.

-Mike