[Gllug] [OT] Hardware problem

Adrian McMenamin adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info
Tue Mar 23 20:13:34 UTC 2010


On Tue, March 23, 2010 2:03 pm, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 08:29 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I had problems booting into Linux off the install cd until I fiddled
>>> with the kernel command line, so I suspect that is where I will have to
>>> start on the installed kernel.
>>>
>>>
>
> Have you tried any other distro's live CDs? That might help you narrow
> down what it's choking on and whether it's kernel or distro specific.
>
First guess was noapic - didn't work
Second was acpi=off which worked

Though whether it will work for the update kernel I am now loading, I
don't yet know

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