On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/24/2008 9:59 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > Fedora 8, Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.10 all fail essentially the same way:
> > the inital boot from the CD is OK but then they can't find the CD
> > drive to do anything else. Messages like "ata 3.00 failed toset
> > xfermode" " ata3 port failed to respond" "Can not find root file
> > system"
> >
> >
> > Meanwhile, the system works just fine booted from its pseudo-SATA drive 0.
>
> Maybe you're past this point now, but I didn't see a reply.
>
> Have you tried disabling acpi when booting the live CD(DVD)? Something like
> pci=noacpi acpi=off
> included as kernel arguments to the boot loader. With a function key or
> something you should be able to edit a line rather than just selecting
> from a menu.
>
I gave up for the weekend, and put the computer back to its normal
operating condition.
Systems that I have seen with acpi problems have been mostly laptops.
But maybe that is because most people coming to InstallFests these
days bring laptops. It's something to try, however.
carl
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