[PLUG] Yet another RH8.0 failed install

[Steven Raymond]

With help from Arjan van de Ven at Redhat, the solution to this problem
was the following:

"can you try putting

apm=idle_threshold=100

on the kernel commandline ? (eg type "e" in grub and then edit the line
with vmlinuz on it to add that)"

It fixed the problem.  Apparently I was the fifth person he helped with
this fix so it is not entirely uncommon.  The line has something to do
with power management for laptops which seems to break certain PCs.....




> I have this HP Vectra VL which, as long as I pass the "no-hlt" parameter
> to the kernal, worked perfectly using RH7.3.  I just tried the "upgrade"
> but then did a clean install of RH8.0 and it fails upon booting.  The
> last line output is:
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
>
> It simply halts after this point and is unresponsive to any keys.
>
> Even when booting off of the boot floppy it stops in the same place.
>
> Any suggestions on what could be causing this type of failure?
>
> Thanks for your help.
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