[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> I just caught this thread, but on the two issues below, don't blame Red
> Hat, blame the HW/Bios manufacturers that do not understand how to
> properly implement APICs.  For the installer to work, when you get the
> boot prompt, simply type : linux noapic
> ...

That may help in some situations, but I tried that and it did *NOT* help here. 
  The problem may very well be Compaq's (HP's) with a weird BIOS; but I'll 
again point out that SuSE deals with it and works, RH does NOT.  So to me, RH 
is the one broken; afterall, it found the CD originally to start the install 
process, why did it lose it?

And don't get me going on the "broken" software straight off the CD (e.g. 
dhclient, mozilla, KDE and screen locking (actually I hear this is "broken" 
most every where as KDE & xscreensaver don't play nice together but shouldn't 
RH have not used it if so?), plus others I'm not thinking of at the moment.

Kevin

>  
> 
>>>With that said, RH9 has many, many problems (not everyone
>>>will experience these btw):
>>>
>>>1. Won't install at all on Compaq DL380G2/G3 boxes.
>>>(well you have to create a fs first and copy the cds
>>>to it in order to install).  RH8 and earlier do not
>>>have any problems with this platform (which is
>>>considered to be the #1 2U unit in the world today).