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From: Roger Mason <rmason@esd.mun.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 09:59:30 -0230	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y65odl3e7dh.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705022335.38460.thomas.kear@gmail.com> (Thomas Kear's message of "Wed, 2 May 2007 23:35:34 +1200")

Thomas Kear <thomas.kear@gmail.com> writes:

>> > I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting
>> > with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I
>> > was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, in 99.9% of cases, the option you want is 'noapic'.  It 
> is by far the largest complaint relating to non-booting livecds on the amd64 
> architecture.

Thank you to all who replied: the 'noapic' option was the required
fix.

Roger

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-02 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 14:17 [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem Roger Mason
2007-05-01 15:03 ` Andrew Gaydenko
     [not found]   ` <y65zm4obm26.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca>
2007-05-01 17:25     ` David Snider
     [not found]       ` <y65lkg8gtaz.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca>
     [not found]         ` <200705022335.38460.thomas.kear@gmail.com>
2007-05-02 12:29           ` Roger Mason [this message]

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