[Newark] mp-bios.bug

[Shelagh Dunning]

Steve Caddy wrote:
> Robert Roworth wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone help,I'm trying to edit the boot on Linux Mint to stop apic from
>> running at Boot. This is my first attempt at the command line, and any help
>> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Hmmm... this isn't so much a command line thing, as a config option in grub. I
> seem to remember having to add "noapic" (without the quotes) to the boot
> options for a file server I built a couple of months ago... you need to press
> E as soon the grub loader appears to edit the boot options, and add it to the
> end of the line with all the other boot options from what I remember (with a
> comma, naturally, to separate it from the other boot options).

anything you edit in the grub loader will need to be done each time you 
boot, so I'd use this to test the theory out before making permanent 
changes. I've been having some trouble when booting as my screen goes 
blank and I get an "input not recognised" banner floating round the 
screen. Having tested the theory that removing "splash" from the boot 
line makes the screen work properly I'll be fixing this permanently later :)

Shelagh