Success! FC6 and AMD64 problems

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Jim Lowman wrote:
> Thanks to all who advised on this matter.
> 
> Kam's suggestion of trying a text-mode install was a good start.  Adding
> the options noacpi, noapic and noapind helped.
> 
> At Renich's suggestion I did try the test version of FC7, but couldn't
> see the cursor after I logged in.
> 
> I now have FC6 up and running, with 282 updated packages, and all is well.
> 
> Only minor problem is that when I boot from XP to FC6 or vice versa, I
> have to re-sync the time, even though I have both set to obtain the time
> from the time server.

What are you doing (and when do you do it) to re-sync your hardware
clock with your systems time?  "man hwclock"  I was under the impression
that if you set your system up properly, it should happen during normal
system shutdowns....

> Jim
> 


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