[Newark] mp-bios.bug

[Robert Roworth]

Thanks Shelagh & Steve, your information solved the problem for me

Bob



--- On Tue, 4/11/08, Shelagh Dunning <s.dunning at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> From: Shelagh Dunning <s.dunning at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [Newark] mp-bios.bug
> To: newark at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008, 8:33 AM
> 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
> 
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