Fedora core 3 install

[Keith Brentson]

Hi again Andy,

I typed an  "a" when I saw the grub screen, then it
chanaged screens.  I typed in noacpi, but it didn't
seem to work either.  It still froze up when  eth0 was
starting.  
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Regards,

Keith


--- Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
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> Keith Brentson wrote:
> | Hello,
> | I have just installed Fedora Core 3 on a Dell
> Inspiron
> | 8600.  The Install seemed to go well until the
> first
> | boot up. The system froze when it was trying to
> bring
> | eth-0 up.  It did this several times. I have the
> newer
> | version of the dell Inspiron 8600 with a Broadcom
> 440x
> | integrated network controller.  I also have the
> ATI
> | Mobility Radeon 9600 pro turbo.
> | I am a complete Linux Newbie, and some of the
> | explanations I've seen are definitely over my
> head.  I
> | would appreciate if I could get some help, or be
> | directed to a help source suitable to my level.
> 
> I have a "similar" setup on an Inspiron 5150 with
> Broadcom 4401 Ethernet
> ~ and it is working fine.  Two ideas spring to mind,
> both wondering if
> the problem is to do with the Interrupt associated
> with the Ethernet
> controller and ACPI.
> 
> 1) See if Dell have a BIOS update, and install it if
> so (The only way I
> found to do so was to create a bootable CD that
> contains the Windows 98
> recovery floppy image, since there is no floppy on
> my machine - thanks Dell)
> 
> 2) If that doesn't fix it, at the grub display type
> 'a' for append IIRC,
> and add the word "noacpi" to the kernel command line
> and see if that
> makes any difference.
> 
> - -Andy
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