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SubjectRe: Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:35:46 -0800
Charles Landau <clandau@macslab.com> wrote:

> I have a new Gateway DX4720-03 PC and have discovered that it won't
> install Fedora 10 unless I give the kernel boot option "noapic" or
> "nolapic".
>
> This system's processor is the Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200.
>
> It would seem that this is either a kernel bug to be fixed, or a
> documentation bug so users of this machine know about the workaround.
> I'll report the bug if someone will tell me how.

It should only be necessary if the system has BIOS problems. File a
report anyway and include the lspci -vvxxx and dmidecode data as
attached files


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