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

[Alastair Neil]

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?
> ----
> 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
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