Re: FC2 on Intel 440GX (was FC1 on Intel 440GX)

From: Greg Wildman (rhlist_at_itns.co.za)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Michael Weiner said the following on 31/05/2004 16:53:
    > On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 16:49 +0200, Greg Wildman wrote:
    >
    >>I have not yet upgraded my 440GX box to FC2 (it's on the TODO list) so
    >>no new ISO. I was under the impression that FC2 did not suffer from the
    >>same problem. Can anybody confirm or deny?
    >>
    >>Not sure what you are saying here. Why would you need the bootdisk if
    >>you are doing a yum upgrade?
    >
    >
    > ** sorry posting response back from another email account **
    >
    > I first tried a virginal install of FC2 on the 440GX box, and yes it
    > hangs at the aic7xxx driver load. I can get FC1 on the box with your
    > boot disk cd easily - and i had to use yum to get it to FC2 for my
    > production SVN server. However, i have a number of other 440GX machines
    > i need to do, that having a new boot disk and installing FC2 initiallt
    > would be a HUGE help and time savings. The FC1 to FC2 exercise took me
    > an entire day to work out all the little nuances and get EVERYTHING
    > correct.

    Have you tried linux acpi=force from the boot prompt? Check out bugzilla
    entry for more details.

    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107880

    I will have a look to see what I need to do to get my 440GX board working. 

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Greg
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