I am trying to install RH8 on a Panasonic CF-29 laptop. The load seemed to go well but when I reboot I get the following:

PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 02:00.1
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
oprofile: mapping APIC.
oprofile: no local APIC. Falling back to RTC mode.
Your CPU does not have a local APIC, e.g. mobile P6. Falling back to RTC mode.
oprofile: can’t get RTC I/O Ports
block: 1024 slots per queue, batch=256
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
PCI_IDE: (ide_setup_pci_device Could not enable device.

This happens if I boot from the HD or with a Linux boot disc.

I believe this may be due to my CPU being newer. It is an Intel Centrino
x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~1396 Mhz

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

It will be because your bios dosn't support apic?

Boot with -noapic in the grub kernel line and you won't get this (from cd, you type linux noapic at the boot: prompt.)

BIOS upgrade may help.

Or it may be that RH8 is old? Which kernel are you using?
I think RH8 uses APM by default instead of ACPI. You can google all this.

Best advice is to get a newer OS - FC4 is supposed to be good on laptops, as is Mepis. At least upgrade that kernel.

Thanks for your reply to my question. I am working on a project that for the time being is using RH8. Will be going to a newer version in the future, but for now it is RH8(not my decision ). I used the computer for something else so I currently don't have RH8 installed. After the holidays I will trying again. I will post the outcome... Thanks again for your response.

This sort of thing can happen - what I usually do is work out which aspects of the project require the legacy OS specifically and impliment that in an up-to-date OS.

Probably you just need the acpi patches for your kernel - after reinstalling RH8, try upgrading to the latest 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6 ... compile it from source so you can make sure all the power systems are installed. Check that your laptop bios is supporting acpi too.

Of course - disabling all this will work too - as this is a temporary situation(?) you can probably live with working on the project while plugged in to AC-mains.

Another option is to run RH8 embedded in a newer OS - a common setup for people in your situation. That way the up-to-date system runs the laptop and the project runs on RH8.