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From: Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:37:29
Message-Id: y65odl3e7dh.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca
1 Thomas Kear <thomas.kear@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 >> > I had the exact same issue last month with some new hardware, booting
4 >> > with noacpi or noapci (can't really remember) did the trick... Once I
5 >> > was installed and had a 2.6.20 kernel, I had no other issues.
6 >>
7 >
8 > For what it's worth, in 99.9% of cases, the option you want is 'noapic'. It
9 > is by far the largest complaint relating to non-booting livecds on the amd64
10 > architecture.
11
12 Thank you to all who replied: the 'noapic' option was the required
13 fix.
14
15 Roger
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