Own a Toshiba Tecra M2 (or, apparently, many business-focused Dells and other big-name do-their-own-BIOS brands) and having big trouble installing Fedora 8? Is it hanging at /sbin/loader? Then you need to press TAB at the installer’s first screen and add the command

nohz=off

to the boot line. You also need to go into advanced GRUB options while installing and append this to the kernel boot line. This is apparently a bug they thought they’d fixed a long time ago and that I know for a fact wasn’t showing up in the release candidates, which is somewhat irritating. That’s Linux development for you, I guess.

Oh, well, on with comparing Fedora 8 to Ubuntu Gutsy… I liked Fedora 8 at the betas and I’m interested to see how it is now.