I'm more than a little embarrassed to say this but, I've just got it to
work by adding a single kernel option:
noapic
I can't believe I didn't try this before, sorry. So, the Dell Dimension
C521 needs noapic as a boot option.
=== strange 2.6.17 + feisty SSL issues===
In case a developer is reading this, an interesting side point is that
while 2.6.17 was running, firefox had tremendous issues with SSL. This
was really strange. So for example, every other launchpad page would
fail with "the connection was reset" as the error. A tcpdump showed my
own machine sending out tcp resets immediately for most of the
connections it started. By contrast, if I tried to download a page
directly using the openssl command line, this worked totally reliably,
as did w3m. Only firefox had the problem, presumably because firefox
has its own SSL implementation. This was only seen with 2.6.17 + feisty
and seems to be gone now with 2.6.20.
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feisty kernel 2.6.20 will not boot on Dell Dimension C521 (AMD64) since -12
prerelease
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113567
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