agpgart detection hangs FC5 boot process on IBM xSeries 300

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Giles Orr wrote:
> My brother has an older IBM xSeries 300 (I think that's the correct
> name) at work, and they're trying to run Fedora Core 5 on it.  I
> would have suggested another distro, but they need FC5 for a
> specific application, or so they're told by their consultant.  The
> machine is a 1U server, Celeron 950MHz(?), dual IBM NICs, 640Mb
> memory, S3 Savage Pro 4 video.  The installation goes fine, and
> everything works fine if you run the CD in rescue mode - the NICs
> work, but everything is text mode.  They aren't concerned with X.
[snip]

Try booting using Knoppix or some other live distro to see what 
happens.
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Clifford Ilkay
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