[Nottingham] Restarting my server

[chris]

Okay....
yes 10 years old is far too old for ACPI, and it seems your kernel has 
been compiled without support for APM.

i assume you are running a 2.6 kernel ? does the distro have a 2.4 
kernel you could boot from ?

how comfortable are you compiling kernels ?

make sure you have a compiler and the kernel source installed.
copy the config file from /boot/ to /usr/src/linux-{version} then rename 
it ".config" then "make menuconfig" find the power management section, 
remove ACPI and add APM, if possible, select Compile as Module.

then

make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

copy arch/i386/boot/bzImage to the /boot directory and edit the 
grub.config or lilo.config accordingly.