AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

[Bill Moran]

In response to Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org>:

> 
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote:
> 
> > Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64  
> > platform?  I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware.
> 
> I have one piece of dell equipment which insists on disabling ACPI  
> timer and then everything works.  Disabling ACPI totally seems  
> undesirable under normal circumstances.

I've done multiple installs of 6-STABLE on a 1950 without problems.
One of them was used to create a custom install CD that I'm using today
to install on several others.  Haven't had to tweak anything at all
in the BIOS.

I missed the start of this thread.  Did you give any more hardware
details?

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.