Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:18:25 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Charles Landau <clandau@macslab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gateway DX4720-03 apic problem
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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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