On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:34 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Felix Miata wrote: >> >> > If you want NX for your existing motherboard you'd probably have to find a >> > Prescott 478, which may never have existed, and even if it does, might not be >> > supported by your BIOS or any available upgrade for it. >> >> I'm not looking for NX. >> I only mentioned it because in another thread someone suggested that >> NX might be the reason I couldn't get the F16 installer to boot. >> For now, I'm going to settle for F15. That installer booted for me. >> If the F17 installer won't boot for me, >> then when F15 goes EOL, so does fedora. > > I doubt your CPU has anything to do with 16 not booting. There's no > intentional change to 16 which would cause that, and I'm pretty sure we > still have quite a lot of people running on P4s. Actually, there was a change in the ACPICA code that broke a number of P4 motherboards entirely that went out with F16. That was in 2.6.39, and F16 shipped with 3.1, and it wasn't fixed until last month. I have no idea if that is the issue Michael is seeing with F16, but it's possible josh -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
