FC2 on Intel 440GX (was FC1 on Intel 440GX)

[Greg Wildman]

Michael Weiner said the following on 31/05/2004 16:53:
> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 16:49 +0200, Greg Wildman wrote:
> 
>>I have not yet upgraded my 440GX box to FC2 (it's on the TODO list) so 
>>no new ISO. I was under the impression that FC2 did not suffer from the 
>>same problem. Can anybody confirm or deny?
>>
>>Not sure what you are saying here. Why would you need the bootdisk if 
>>you are doing a yum upgrade?
> 
> 
> ** sorry posting response back from another email account **
> 
> I first tried a virginal install of FC2 on the 440GX box, and yes it
> hangs at the aic7xxx driver load. I can get FC1 on the box with your
> boot disk cd easily - and i had to use yum to get it to FC2 for my
> production SVN server. However, i have a number of other 440GX machines
> i need to do, that having a new boot disk and installing FC2 initiallt
> would be a HUGE help and time savings. The FC1 to FC2 exercise took me
> an entire day to work out all the little nuances and get EVERYTHING
> correct. 

Have you tried linux acpi=force from the boot prompt? Check out bugzilla 
entry for more details.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107880

I will have a look to see what I need to do to get my 440GX board working.

--
Greg