I tried adding 'noacpi' and 'acpi=off', and neither worked. Thanks, though.
On 4/29/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > That Fedora set up is cool. Many moons ago people used to use a /boot > partition to get around BIOS boot disk size limitations. It's neat to see > they remembered the trick and applied it to LVM. The same thing can be done > by making a small root partion and mounting most of the file system, > like /usr, /var and /home, from other partitons. Dustin has a nifty default > set up, but I gave up most of that because BIOS booting got easier. I'll > still mount /usr and some others from a nice fast scsi drive. > > ACPI is something the kernel tries to use, regardless of BIOS settings. An > older machine won't have it and the kernel ACPI can make trouble. You > disable it with a boot option or two, "acpi=off" and "noacpi". As an example > the grub menu.lst on this machine, /boot/grub/menu.lst, has: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 > > You can edit that file to add the options from a live CD and you can usually > edit the boot options by some keystroke your distribution should tell you > about. > > I hope that helps. > > On Friday 27 April 2007 10:19 am, Joe Fruchey wrote: > > I tried running the default Ubuntu 7.04 server install > > last night using standard guided partitioning (no LVM) only on hda, > > and it does the same thing. I have no options in the BIOS config for > > ACPI or APM. Hell, I'm surprised they gave me boot order, piece of > > crap machine. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
