FC6 on a HP DC7700

[Thomas Swan]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> Trever L. Adams wrote:
>> ...
>>> Can you try it with acpi on and the noapic command?
>>
>> No, it still doesn't boot.
>>
>> The last line written is:
>>
>> ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
>>
>> Mogens
>
> I've tried with the 2.6.19-1.2895 x86_64 kernel,
> and now it requires both acpi=off and noapic.
>
> Without noapic it panics immediately.
>
upgraded the BIOS to at least 1.09 and the system requires no special 
parameters to install and run.   However, adding hda=noprobe and 
hdc=noprobe significantly improves disk i/o (from 4MB/s to 65MB/s).   
Problem solved.