Bug 394621

(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> I am filing this bug because the http://www.fedorafaq.org/#otherinstall has the
> solution but asks people to file bugs if they need to use it.

Man, some those tips are horribly out-of-date. "ide=nodma" will have no effect
whatsoever...

Much better list of workarounds is at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems

I have just double checked and it is acpi=off that resolves the issue not the
ide=nodma.

Given how long this took me to work out, perhaps there could be a safe boot
option in grub that turns acpi off?

(In reply to comment #2)

> Given how long this took me to work out, perhaps there could be a safe boot
> option in grub that turns acpi off?

Adding the above in grub parameters will do that. Editing the grub.conf kernel
parameters makes it permanent.

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