FC1 boot freeze on IBM Summit chipset

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 04:20, Choo Zhi Min wrote:

> I install FC1 on IBM x445 (Summit chipset, 4GB RAM, dual Xeon 3.0GHz).
>  During bootup:

Seriously, chances are you (or someone) paid out a huge amount of
$'s for that box, and RHEL is a drop in the ocean in comparison, and
it's actually been tested, and is a supported configuration there.

Fedora Core 1 got _zero_ testing in that environment as it's
not really a commodity piece of hardware that we expected people
to run Fedora on.  Chances are the problem is caused by some lack
of APIC/smpboot fixes or the like that went into later kernels that
weren't merged into Fedora Core 1.

If you don't want to go down the RHEL route, you could try the 2.6
FC2 kernel on there, but again no guarantees that it's going to work.

	Dave