Description of problem: The problem looks similar to the problem described in "Bugzilla Bug 221658": I'm using a "MSI MEGABOOK M670", see (German page) http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000LC53MW Fedora 6 worked fine up to some upgrade, after that I it didn't boot telling me "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the noapic option" like in the other report mentioned above. Adding the noapic-option in the /boot/grub/grub.conf "solved" the problem. Now I tried to install Fedora 8. When inserting the Fedora 8 DVD I got the options 1) Install... 2) Install (text mode)... ... A few seconds after choosing one I get the same error message -- there is no longer any chance to use the noapic-option to avoid the problem. Installing Fedora 7 worked fine. Best regards, Julian Hofmann
You can press the [tab] key to edit the install disk boot options.
Hello, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I think I'll just close this one...