agpgart detection hangs FC5 boot process on IBM xSeries 300

[Giles Orr]

On 4/4/07, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I should have mentioned: that was pretty much my first thought.
 Knoppix hung completely, even in failsafe mode.  I apologize that I
didn't write down the errors or where it hung ... but I did try it.

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