Need help on disabling APM Bios Detection because it causes the boot on Mandrake to freeze up. Already partitioned my hard drive and everything, so I hope I don't have to reinstall to do this. Installation went just fine until I tried booting up.

Had the same issue with Knoppix distro, but Knoppix gave me the options at boot to type in what not to detect. Unfortunately Mandrake doesn't? At least that's what it seems like since I chose the GUI install.

By the way, I am using LILO bootloader and it is the GUI form I chose so mother wouldn't complain when she finds out Im dual booting. So will this be a problem or is there a way to get to the command line from there to adjust the setting?

Please help.

search this forum and google groups for noacpi

What I've tried so far on boot appends:

Enabled acpi in gui of installer and then appended it as well..

acpi=on <--in appends

Disabled acpi

acpi=off <--in appends

No matter what i do with it I always get this back at boot

ACPI Interpretor disabled.

My problem is with APM bios detection.

Should I append apm=off ?

Will this work or is there something else I should try?
Someone please reply, I would truly appreciate it.
Would like to get Mandrake up and running today.

on boot when lilo comes up hit enter then type in noapic and hit enter. this should disable it and let you boot, then go to mandrake control center and select "boot" and click on "drakeboot" then click on "configure" under Lilo DE-select "Enable acpi" and select "Force no APIC" and save it.

I hope this helps you

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction brew, her's what worked for me.

linux noapic noacpi

and then Disabling acpi in bootmenu, and checking Force noapic.

loaded to a sexy new KDE Desktop woohoo!