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Re: your mail



Because I already had the cd's and wanted to see if I could get Linux to
run on this laptop.
I've found nothing that says a newer kernel fixes this problem on this
model of laptop, maybe it will work if so thanks.
For anyone else who doesn't know how to add this to grub it is:  kernel
/vmlinuz-"kernel ver." ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi noathlon





-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Pritchard [mailto:steve@silug.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:02 PM
To: luci-discuss@luci.org
Subject: Re: your mail


On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:50:11PM -0500, Joe Tosetti wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a Compaq Presario 715US laptop with Red Hat 7.2.

Why in the world would you want to install a version of Red Hat that is
not current?

> I found an article that said there is a problem with the athlon 
> optimization of Red Hat, and booting with the option noathlon solves 
> the problem.

I'm sure it did, with the *ancient* kernel that shipped with Red Hat
7.2.  Upgrading to an errata kernel would solve the problem nicely as
well.

> I'm fairly new to Linux and I'm not sure how to add this to the 
> grub.conf.  Can any one help?

I'm going to play BOFH here.  I won't tell you how to "fix" a problem
that you shouldn't be having.  Go download Red Hat 7.3 and upgrade (or
reinstall).

    ftp://ftp.luci.org/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/iso/i386/

Or at the *very* least update your system.  You don't want an un-patched
Red Hat 7.2 system on the Internet.  (For that matter, you don't want an
un-patched Red Hat 7.3 system or anything else un-patched on the
Internet.)

    ftp://ftp.luci.org/pub/redhat/linux/updates/

Steve
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