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Ronald J. Hall wrote on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:38:40AM -0500 :
> 
> Guys, I'm not using a laptop but I'm having serious problems with 9.0 on my 
> desktop. It installs great, but will only bootup or shutdown correctly after 
> numerous attempts. I passed "noapci" thru /etc/lilo.conf like this:
<snip>
> but still, when I do successfully bootup, I get this in dmesg:
> Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
> Found and enabled local APIC!
> So whats up with that? Seems I can't disable apic - and yes, I did rerun 
> /sbin/lilo as root, after making changes.

He's disabling acpi (power management), you're quoting messages about
apic (interrupt controller).  Two totally different things.  It's a
shame the acronyms are so damn close to each other :-/

> When/if the normal bootup fails, I can usually get a complete bootup by using 
> the nonfb choice. What is there about that choice that lets it bootup (when 
> apci is *not* disabled there!)?

Something to do with video.  Try going into nonfb, but pass vga=xxx
where xxx is some number between 791 and 798 to get various graphical
modes (ie more than 24 lines of text).

Blue skies...                   Todd
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