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Re: New Red Hat 7.2 installer test ISO.

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: New Red Hat 7.2 installer test ISO.
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:48:00 +1100
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "14 Nov 2001 11:29:39 MDT." <1005758979.4846.62.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On 14 Nov 2001 11:29:39 -0600, 
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>There's a new installer ISO out there for testing.  The major change is
>that the installer now boots the "original" Red Hat 2.4.7 kernel (with
>xfs, of course) rather than the updated 2.4.9 kernel.  Several people
>reported hardware problems with the last iso, hopefully this kernel
>change will remedy that.

Did they see problems with SCSI controllers taking forever to scan the
bus using UP kernels?  I hit that on stock RH 7.2 with 440GX
motherboards, booting the installer with the apic parameter works
around the motherboard problem.


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