2007/2/26, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 12:34 -0500, Michel Salim wrote: > Is Anaconda currently checking the machine configuration against a > compatibility database? On some AMD64 laptops (including my HP L2000), > the machine would lock up randomly (without any log message) if booted > without "noapic" (I added "nosmp" for good measure). Instead of having a database of things like this, maybe it makes more sense to fix them in the kernel? :-) And if there is a real hardware need for things like this, it's very possible to use dmi for setting a lot of it -- and that even helps the case for when you boot into the installer! Or a live CD, etc etc etc
In this particular instance it turns out (most likely) to be an overheating issue -- once I removed one of my two RAM modules everything is more stable. So noapic is not the culprit in this case. It might still be useful to have such a database, so 1) users of affected hardware don't spend too much time diagnosing the problem 2) kernel developers have a single place to look for compatibility issues Regards, -- Michel Salim http://hircus.wordpress.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
