On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 08:47 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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 Then that's the *motherboard* that's the problem, not the CPU. =) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
