On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:21 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
A few months ago, I tried to install fedora on a Dell Optiplex 320
mini-tower. After some problems and googling, I found out that this
model's bios, graphics setup, and(something else I forgot) seem to
resist mightily the idea of running fedora. People seemed to have
problems getting grub running and the SATA disk in that model doesn't
like LVM. This guy
(
http://wirelessness.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/installing-fedora-linux-on-a...)
claims to have gotten fc6 running on a 320, after 19 hours of
tweaking. I tried following his advice, but didn't get far.
Now I am wondering whether anyone on the list can suggest either a
comparable PC from Dell that will not be so annoying, or perhaps the
whole issue has become moot since then (fc8?) and I should try again?
The workstation 490s have given me no trouble, but they cost more.
By the way, knoppix runs fine on the 320 - what's up with that?
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I've got several bugzilla entries on that specific topic.
This is all about kernel support for various hardware and though I had
no real issues with FC6, Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 brought new issues.
The Knoppix or whatever isn't likely to work with the newer kernels.
Basically, with FC7, it should work with x86_64 without any futzing,
i386 does require a dance but I have forgotten what it was.
With FC8, you need to add the following to boot it with x86_64...
pci=noacpi clocksource=acpi_pm
see...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219715
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379201
Craig