Kevin, that's great!  I hope it resolved the issue for you.  Yeah, those
IBMs can be quite the difficult boxes....  But, I guess now we get to
grumble about Lenovo ;)

Cheers,

-Gadi

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 18:48 -0400, Gentgeen wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:25:36 -0400
> Gideon Romm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know much about this particular problem, but I do know that
> > some older IBM machines have issues with the *kernel*'s power
> > management and the CPU interrupts.  Try not only turning off ACPI in
> > the bios, but pass the kernel params:  "apm=off acpi=off" or some
> > such.  
> > 
> > To pass kernel params to an Etherboot client, use option-129 in
> > dhcpd.conf.
> > 
> > To pass kernel params to a PXE client, add the params on the command
> > line in pxelinux.cfg/default (or a separate client-specific file if
> > desired).
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > -Gadi
> 
> Thank you, thank you, thank you.....
> 
> I think that FINALLY did the trick.  I got it PXE booting set up this
> morning, and the kids have been logging in (and out) all day to help me
> test it.  So far, no keyboard issues.  I will get back to the list if I
> STILL have problems down the road... but for right now a BIG THANKS to
> Gadi.... I have been working on this issue now for so long.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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