Dell latitude D820 will not boot after installation of Fedora 7

[shmuel siegel]

This was a known problem before the release. I don't know why it isn't 
published more widely. Basically, you should read
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241249

There seems to be three options.
1) Add maxcpus=1 to the kernel boot line of grub. This will let you boot 
with only one cpu;
2) Add clocksource=acpi_pm to the kernel boot line of grub. This seems 
to work for everybody
3) After booting by some method (possibly an older kernel), update to 
the kernel found at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/

I am currently using method 2 for my D620.

patric at parmenberg.se wrote:
> Hi !
>
> After standard installation of Fedora 7, my laptop will not boot
>
> all I get is
>
> Booting 'Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)'
>
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/logVol00 rhgb 
> quiet
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size0x1c9dd4]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
> [linux-initrd @0x37c8a000, 0x3653e0 bytes]
>
> Uncomressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
>
> then nothing
>
> tried to reinstall and wipe the hd tree times now but same error.
>
> Please respond by e-mail.
>
> Regards
> Patric
>
>
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