From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751889AbZAYTmi (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:42:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751041AbZAYTma (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:42:30 -0500 Received: from ds.netgate.net ([205.214.170.232]:51576 "EHLO ds.netgate.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750921AbZAYTm3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:42:29 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:42:29 EST Message-ID: <497CBF12.10202@macslab.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:35:46 -0800 From: Charles Landau User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have a new Gateway DX4720-03 PC and have discovered that it won't install Fedora 10 unless I give the kernel boot option "noapic" or "nolapic". This system's processor is the Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200. It would seem that this is either a kernel bug to be fixed, or a documentation bug so users of this machine know about the workaround. I'll report the bug if someone will tell me how.