F8 x86_64 and i386 installs hang on Dell Optiplex 320 with Intel Pentium 2160 processor
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Nov 13 23:29:02 UTC 2007
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?
>
> regards, Alastair
>
Always seems to be video related for the optiplexes here.
Go into the Dell BIOS and change the video priority from Auto to on-board.
We have also seen one or two that needed to change SATA mode to regular
SATA, NOT emulated IDE.
I hope one of those does it for ya.
Good luck.
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