more fc6 installation blues

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Thanks for your suggestions.  I also think I'd better try to read up on
them.  I expect to put GRML on the hard drive, even if it ends up being
primarily to burn FC6 CD's, so it may give me the information you suggest I
seek.

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 6:03 PM
Subject: re: more fc6 installation blues


> Albert, thanks much information you provided has provided as many useful
> answers as you could possibly provide. The cmos header information may
> provide you with some more useful information.  If you get a Linux
> installed or try again with some form of fc6 speakup disks maybe try using
> acpi=force as one of the boot parameters.  It could be an old acpi is
> being blocked from running by default and acpi=force will clear that and
> maybe give fc6 a little more information.  Perhaps using lapic as another
> boot parameter may improve a few things too.  As an alternative apm=on
> might be tried to substitute for acpi=force in boot parameters.  If a
> system does install you may be able to read cmos information at the top of
> /var/logs/dmesg and if the cmos information has something else to say
> other than intel I'll not be surprised.  My cmos information identifies
> this machine as a Dell.  You could get the name of the computer store
> where you bought the machine but I don't know.
>
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