F17 vs. Pentium 4

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 08:47 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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

Then that's the *motherboard* that's the problem, not the CPU. =)
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