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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances >> and start using them to simplify application deployment and >> accelerate your shift to cloud computing. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
