[ale] Weird problem with Red Hat EL 5 on MacBook Pro

[James Sumners]

My only question is why would you install it directly? Did you give
VMWare Fusion a try?

As to the question, I don't know. I've never loaded another OS on my MBP.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> I've recently purchased a MacBook Pro and successfully installed Fedora
>  8 using Boot Camp and refit.  I first tried to install Red Hat EL 5, but
>  kept getting hda errors.
>
>  Specs:
>
>  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300  @ 2.50GHz
>  2gig memory
>  NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
>
>  Anyway, I finally was able to do a network install of RHEL 5 along side
>  my existing Fedora 8. Now I have two problems.
>
>  I continue to get hda errors:
>
>  hda: DMA interrupt recovery
>  lost interrupt
>  lost interrupt
>
>  But the worst problem is that keyboard input is extremely slow.  I can
>  type a whole line before I see the first character echoed back.  It's
>  like I'm connected remotely via a 110 baud modem.  Further, it's
>  extremely susceptible to duplicating keystrokes.  This makes it really
>  impossible to even use.  This happens both in X and at the console.
>
>  Has anyone seen anything like this?
>
>  --
>  Until later, Geoffrey



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