Description of problem: I had installed Redhat 8 on my old Gateway Select 800 machine which had an athlon 800 mhz processor. After installing RH8 with no problems, I tried booting up linux and it hung at the prompt "Init version 2.84 booting". I have seen this problem before on LinuxQuestions.org and other places. But to date, not sure if the problem was solved. I haven't been able to get to testing the machine since I gave it to my nephew in another state. This summer I plan to go back there and get linux installed. It appears this problem has the following connections: Gateway machines using Athlon before Thunderbird came out - 600 - 800 mhz processors, maybe more. RH8 easily installed on earlier versions of AMD's chips which I proved by installing it on a K6-ii or iii machine. This problem apparently happened with Mandrake 9 as well. Some suggested using the following boot parameter: apm=idle_threshold=100 Specifically add it after kernel /boot/vmlinu... apm=idle_threshold=100 I am not sure that I got a verification on this, but does this sound about right? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): REDHAT 8 How reproducible: EASY Steps to Reproduce: 1. find gateway machine w/ 600-800 mhz athlon 2. install RH8 3. does not boot - hangs at boot Actual results: see above in message Expected results: boots up fine Additional info:
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