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.
