From: "Ian Kluft" <ikluft@thunder.sbay.org>
To: "Alan Forsyth" <apforsyt@bayarea.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 4:37 AM
Subject: FXA47 laptop hang - shorter workaround


Thank you for your efforts to put together your web page on the Sony  FXA32+ series laptops at
http://www.furlan.org/misc/tips_and_tricks/Sony_Vaio_PCG-FXA32/step_by_step_instructions.html

It saved me a lot of time getting Linux installed on my new FXA47.

I found an easier workaround for the Athlon kernel error which hangs the ystem on boot.  I would like to contribute this info back for your web page.  Using your idea to us an i686 kernel instead of the Athlon kernel, rather than compiling a kernel I used the RH7.2 install CD's "rescue mode" to replace the kernel RPM.  These steps did it...

* install from the RH7.2 CD as usual (using Installation CDs 1 and 2)
* reboot with the Installation CD 1 again
* at the boot prompt enter "linux rescue"
* hit ENTER for the language and keyboard dialogs (not needed for rescue mode)
* hit ENTER for the dialogs that tell you to continue to get to rescue mode
* when it brings up the rescue mode shell prompt, enter these commands:

cd /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -F --ignorearch --root=/mnt/sysimage kernel-2.4.7-10.i686.rpm

* (if you don't use GRUB for your boot loader, add "noathlon" to your
  kernel command line before rebooting.  The following steps are how 
  I did it with GRUB, following a reboot.)
* press CTRL-D to log out and reboot
* enter the GRUB boot menu, edit any/all RH7.2 boot entries to add "noathlon"
  at the end of each entry's "kernel" command line