Cannot upgrade box to Fedora 8... DVD stalled on vmlinuz... Ready!

[Sam Varshavchik]

Excalibur Xcalibur writes:

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> Hi Folks,
>                I burned the dvd iso of F8, and when I booted the DVD and 
> selected upgrade, it loaded fine and went on to 
> 
> vmlinuz blah blah...
> 
> then completely stalls or freezes on "Ready". Well it was like that for 
> hours. So I couldn't upgrade my FC6 box with F8. Even when I reboot it, 
> it's still the same story. 
> 
> 
> Any clues?

Try adding the following boot parameters: nohz=off noapic


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