FC2 and Via Epia

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed May 19 10:37:57 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 11:32, Andreas Müller wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> I have a problem to even boot the FC2 on my hardware (Via Epia M6000, 512MB
> Dram).
> FC2 just reboots the PC after (or while) loading the initrd.img. Doesnt
> matter if i try noprobe, nofb, graphical or text.
> I even tried to give the "mem=xxx", but doent works either.
> 
> Is there any hint/advice/parameter you can give me?
> (I use on another machine MoviX as os (MiniLinux Distribution) and there i
> have to pass "acpi=off" as parameter, anything similar here maybe?)

This one is puzzling (its in bugzilla already, though I don't have
the number to hand). It only seems to affect certain users, and the
only thing we've established so far is that it seems to be a motherboard
(or BIOS) problem rather than CPU related.

	Dave





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