F8 x86_64 and i386 installs hang on Dell Optiplex 320 with Intel Pentium 2160 processor

[Karl Larsen]

Alastair Neil wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 12:14 PM, Alastair Neil <ajneil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Nov 13, 2007 6:38 PM, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 17:40 -0500, Alastair Neil wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I have a Dell Optiplex 320 with a Pentium dual Dual Core CPU ( 2160).
>>>> I am trying to boot off of a usb thumb drive with the disk images from
>>>>         
>>>> the respective full DVD.isos.
>>>>
>>>> Both fail to get past probing the serial ports on boot.  The i386
>>>> thumb drive has been used successfully to install a Dell 270.
>>>> Currently both hyperthreading and speedstep are enabled.  I have tried
>>>>         
>>>> a few kernel parameters, such as pci=nomsi, acpi=off and noacpi to no
>>>> avail.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone succeeded in installing F8 on this hardware?
>>>>         
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>>> my fault, I have a number of bugzilla items in on this...
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379201
>>>
>>> you'll note that on the last one, I did figure out that appending
>>>
>>> pci=noacpi timesource=acpi_pm
>>>
>>> kernel parameters will allow you to install/boot
>>>
>>> but I have never gotten grub to boot on these things and nothing has
>>> changed there, thus I continue to use lilo to get these things to boot
>>> which means that each kernel update requires a manual run of lilo.
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that we get these things all worked out as I am working
>>> doggedly with the kernel developers on this
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>       
>> Craig,
>>
>> thanks for the tips adding pci=noapci and clocksource=acpi_pm indeed
>> allowed me to start the install.  I have added myself as a CC on the bugs
>> you mentioned so, I'll keep my fingers crossed.  A complication on my part
>> is that these are to be dual boot systems.  I havn't used lilo in years so
>> I'm going to have to brush up on my dual boot lilo configuration.
>>
>> Thanks again, Alastair
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> An update for those following at home:
>
> I have managed to get these systems to boot using grub2, of course I have
> had to disable kernel updates in the yum.conf.
>
> As a side note I was absolutely dismayed by the state of grub development.
> The last release of grub2 was at the beginning of 2006.  It seems to be
> completely stagnant.  This certainly raises the question whither Fedora?
>
>   
    I wonder what grub 2 might be. I had a lot of trouble with the grub 
I have on F7 but it was all my lack of understanding how grub works and 
now it works fine. Could you have the same problem?



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