Re: FC6 on a HP DC7700

[Mogens Kjaer <mk crc dk>]

Thomas Swan wrote:
...
> upgraded the BIOS to at least 1.09 and the system requires no special 
> parameters to install and run.   However, adding hda=noprobe and 
> hdc=noprobe significantly improves disk i/o (from 4MB/s to 65MB/s).   
> Problem solved.

Not for me. I've flashed 1.09A, the BIOS lists it as:

786E1 v01.09

and no difference for me.

Without acpi=off it stops with:

ACPI:Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0

Even with acpi=off it won't run kernel 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
(x86_64).

Mogens
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