The 6.9 release candidate should be published soon.  That may be worth 
testing on this hardware.

Pat

On 04/11/2017 08:33 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> try booting with acpi=off and update bios to latest first.
>
> also try with ubuntu live to test, if hardware works with linux :)
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> Eero
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> 2017-04-11 16:30 GMT+03:00 Dan McDaniel 
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>     We just got a Dell Precision R7910. The net install CD hangs at
>     "detecting hardware." I can boot the LiveCD, but not the install CD.
>     I've tried both 6.7 and 6.8.
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>     Has anyone run into this? Any work-arounds?
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>     -- 
>     Dan McDaniel
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