FC6 on a HP DC7700

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 22:19:10 UTC 2007


On 1/11/07, Thomas Swan <tswan at idigx.com> wrote:
> Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> > Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> >> Thomas Swan wrote:
> >> ...
> >>> On FC6 2.16.18-2869:
> >>> # time ( let X=0; while [ $X -lt 1000 ] ; do let X=$X+1 ; done )
> >>> real 0m8.631s
> >>> user 0m8.385s
> >>> sys 0m0.203s
> >>
> >> This is not my experience:
> >>
> >> On FC6 x86_64 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6:
> >>
> >> real    0m0.014s
> >> user    0m0.013s
> >> sys     0m0.000s
> >>
> >> Note, this is the 64 bit FC6, acpi=off.
> >>
> >> It won't boot without acpi=off, BIOS
> >> is v1.06
> >
> > I tried installing FC6 i386 on this box:
> >
> > 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6:
> >
> > real    0m0.017s
> > user    0m0.014s
> > sys     0m0.003s
> >
> > It also needs acpi=off in order to boot.
> > BIOS is still v1.06.
> >
> > Mogens
> >
> All of our HP DC7700 (1.86GHz processors) are having this problem.    It
> will boot with no options to the kernel and with acpi=off.    Defaults
> are turned on in the bios.    After about 48 hours of uptime the speed
> improves by a little.   7 seconds instead of 8-10 to run the little
> test.   Both on 64bit and 32bit FC6 installations.
>

Note for myself: do not buy anything from HP in the future, unless it
is not listed in
http://www.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/certifications.html




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