minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 10:50 -0700, stan wrote: 
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:29:06 -0500 (CDT)
> Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> 
> > In another thread,
> > it was suggested that this bugzilla entry might be pertinent:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730007
> > While I can certainly see the relationship,
> > it's not obviously the same thing.
>  
> If you mean it isn't about someone being unable to boot the F16 DVD
> from a hard drive on a P4 system, you are right.  But it is certainly
> suggestive that kernels after 3.0 fail to boot on some P4 systems, and
> the F16 DVD comes with a kernel after 3.0.  The 2.6.39 series were the
> development branch for the 3.0 kernel releases.
> 
> The bugzilla suggested that boot problem for Pentium 4s was fixed
> after the 3.2.8 series Fedora kernel.  I think F17 will have a 3.3 or
> later series kernel, so the fix will be incorporated.  You could wait
> until F17 is out, and install it instead of F16.
> 
> Or, if you can somehow get the latest F16 kernel and use it to boot the
> F16 DVD ISO instead of the one that came on the DVD, it might work
> for you since it will not have the problem described in that bugzilla.
> 
> Maybe open a new bugzilla for your problem, and get help from an expert
> (which I am not).

Installing from the F16 DVD worked fine on my P4 except that I can only
get failswafe Mode. Which is strange since the Live CD comes up with
normal Gnome 3. Some one said in a note earlier today that would lead me
to find out why the installed system only works in fail safe mode but it
doesn't.. Does it to anyone else.
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