On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 16:22, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, I'm now randomly booting into v9.0 of Mandrake (about 1 out of every 5 > attempted bootups are successful - the rest lockup so hard that the keys are > the keyboard won't work). Same thing with shutting down - sometimes it does, > sometimes it don't. > > I've got about 5 entries in /etc/lilo.conf, using different kernels, with > different combinations of "noapic" and "noacpi". > > Okay, it used to be a given that plug 'n play was turned off in BIOS. Is that > still true? > > I have APIC turned off in BIOS - should it be off or on? Really, does it make > a difference? I'm asking because according to dmesg - whether its turned off > or on, I always get the same message: > > Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. > Found and enabled local APIC! > > Anyone have any idea if I d/le'd and installed a newer cooker kernel if it > might help? Or maybe if I recompiled what I've got and left ACPI out for > good? > > Thanks (from a very frustrated 9.0 wannabe user) > > -- > > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > > > ---- >
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Ron one of the other appends mentioned was "nopentium". I'm just grabing at straws here. But what the heck, try it on one boot up and see. HTH
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