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 > >
