Well, the last install I ran was telling Feisty to do the partitioning with NO LVM. But yeah, I guess I should see what it comes up as. Sounds like something good to do on my lunch break. Living 7 blocks from work is teh nice.
Joe On 4/29/07, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm thinking that a 500 Mhz compaq doesn't support ACPI anyway. I > wonder what a Linux LiveCD would see your root partition as? > > Joe Fruchey wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
