From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752642AbZAYUT5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:19:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751162AbZAYUTt (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:19:49 -0500 Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:35992 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909AbZAYUTs (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:19:48 -0500 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=GSFlAo79l1Qmjo3mdGIA:9 a=iihfJz0NJMUCMUa0GAcBt0igwg0A:4 Message-ID: <497CC962.7060900@shaw.ca> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:19:46 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: Charles Landau CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem References: <497CBF12.10202@macslab.com> In-Reply-To: <497CBF12.10202@macslab.com> 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 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?