Fedora 8 64 bit DVD upgrade problem

[Jim Duda]

Martin,

I purchased a Compaq Presario F527US a couple of months ago and 
installed FC7 on it.  It worked fine for about a month, then things
went downhill.  The machine started to have problems booting, many
times the computer would hang, and I had to e2fsck the disk many times
after it did finally boot.

I struggled with Compaq support to convince them that there was a 
hardware issue.  They didn't want to honor the warranty because I
installed linux on the computer, they were convince it was a linux 
issue.  I finally won the battle after I convinced them that windows 
vista was having issues too.

Anyways, I was hoping you could share your experience with the Compaq 
Presario F500.  Is it working okay for you with FC7?

I found I had to use the following kernel boot options to get it to work 
well:

irqpoll noapic

Do you have to use similiar kernel boot optoins?

I appreciate any insight you can offer as I hope to get my presario 
repaired and working with linux again.  I really like the laptop, works 
great with linux (not so much with vista).

Thanks,

Jim



Martin Marques wrote:
> Lars E. Pettersson escribió:
>> On 11/16/2007 02:35 PM, Martin Marques wrote:
>>> The thing is that it boots OK asks for language and keyboard, then if
>>> grub should be upgraded and gets blocked checking for dependencies at
>>> 26%.
>> This is a known problem, take a look at
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011 for some suggestions
>> on how to proceed.
> 
> Just found the bug report a few minutes ago.
> 
> I really can't believe that this bug past right by the RC of Fedora 8.
>