On 2014-06-26, Scott Vanderbilt <li...@datagenic.com> wrote: > Having done a little man page reading on boot-time configuration, I > learned about the existence of ukc. I'm wondering whether something like > > ukc> disable acpi0 > > might circumvent the kernel panic and allow the boot to successfully > complete. I'm hoping that since this is a server, ACPI is non-essential. > Just grasping at straws in an effort to get this machine up and running > again.
I think you should consider ACPI essential on pretty much any x86 machine from the last 4-5 years or so - servers, laptops, standard PCs. In an emergency such as this you might get away with it briefly, but some devices are likely not to work, and it's not recommended leaving it like that for any length of time, ACPI is involved in a lot of system controls (thermal controls, power etc) and most modern machines are just not designed/tested to work without it.
