F17 vs. Pentium 4

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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.

Actually, there was a change in the ACPICA code that broke a number of
P4 motherboards entirely that went out with F16.  That was in 2.6.39,
and F16 shipped with 3.1, and it wasn't fixed until last month.

I have no idea if that is the issue Michael is seeing with F16, but
it's possible

josh