getting power off

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:50 -0500, C Lance Moxley wrote:
> On 7/11/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a Dell Optiplex 320 which has a number of issues reported in
> > bugzilla on FC-6 and F7
> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219043>
> 
> I've just spent a week pissing with F7 on an Optiplex 320. Did all the
> things in Bugzilla and got it working. Learned something real valuable
> though. Install the x86_64 distribution! It's a 64 bit CPU and you
> don't need to pass any kernel options on boot. You still need to
> install lilo instead of grub though.
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OK - that's sort of ugly for a workstation though isn't it? Java,
Acrobat Reader and various browser plugins

I have a few of them so I might play around with that option - why is
that if the x86_64 doesn't need the kernel parameters to locate the hard
drive - that grub still doesn't work?

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Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>