From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Charles Landau <clandau@macslab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:19:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497CC962.7060900@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497CBF12.10202@macslab.com>
Charles Landau wrote:
> 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.
I think you just did report it :-)
Well, it's something that should be fixed in the kernel, either it's a
kernel bug or hardware busted in some way that we should be detecting.
How is it failing to install, is it locking up at some point, etc?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-25 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-25 19:35 Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem Charles Landau
2009-01-25 20:18 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-25 20:19 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-01-25 20:59 ` Aioanei Rares
2009-01-25 22:00 ` Charles Landau
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