Ah, I was wondering what those two little doohickeys were when it 
started booting to the CD-ROM...  Thanks!

Mark

On 09/15/2010 06:00 AM, Alex Joni wrote:
> You should be able to edit the grub line even for the LiveCD.
> At the beginning of the boot there's a keyboard symbol on the screen, 
> if you press any key you get a boot menu.
> There is an option there to edit boot params (F6 or so, iirc).
> All you need to do is add lapic to the boot line.
>
> I am not sure it's a good idea adding lapic for all PC's, this is only 
> usefull for older machines without SMP I think.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wendt" <[email protected]>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Fwd: [EMC Support Forum Forum] Re:10.04 live 
> cd no Realtime (Installing EMC)
>
>
>> Alex,
>>
>>     That works once you've installed the OS and EMC2.  I had the
>> problem running it from the live CD, with no way of adding qualifiers to
>> the boot.  Perhaps on the next release, or update that could be added as
>> a default to the /etc/default/grub file?  Or will that break other 
>> installs?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On 09/14/2010 04:10 PM, Alex Joni wrote:
>>> It's not APIC, but LAPIC (Local APIC) that's the troublesome thingie.
>>> There are some (older?) BIOS'es that apparently don't enable it by 
>>> default,
>>> so the user has to enable lapic at boot time (kernel param).
>>>
>>> There have been quite a few messages how to fix this.
>>> But here it goes again:
>>>
>>> in /etc/default/grub, change
>>>
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash lapic"
>>>
>>> and then run update-grub and reboot
>>>
>>> This only works if your system _does_ have an LAPIC.
>>> If you get the error message:
>>> [ 0.080250] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
>>> then you are out of luck, and you need a non-SMP RTAI install (hardy 
>>> 8.04
>>> for example).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex
>>
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