Re: Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem

[Robert Hancock]

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?
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