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Old 11-22-2004, 04:26 AM   #16
Sslaxx
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Just a footnote...


Adding "acpi=off", as in

Code:
kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/sda4 ro acpi=off
Did the trick!

As I recall - during setup (I was reinstalling as I was taking the opportunity to remove the defunct Windows partitions), booting with the 2.6 kernel, left ACPI on initially, the hardware detection hung during finding the CD-ROM drives (loading a SCSI layer module, it seems). Turning it off did the trick.

Simple? Yes. Obvious? Not necessarily. In fact, it was listed as an example option in the Debian bootloader help - and that made it click in my mind. Perhaps this option should be set automatically in the bootloader?

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Old 11-22-2004, 11:15 PM   #17
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It has been mentioned that upgrading a kernel this way will automatically update grub but will it automatically update lilo too? I have tried grub twice and both times I've screwed things up so I'd rather stay with lilo.

[EDIT] Also, would it work with a Knoppix-Debian install? I've been trying to compile a new kernel manually but I've been unable to boot it after, am I likely to get the same problem?

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