On Wednesday 18 December 2002 08:37 pm, you wrote:
> 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 :-/
Todd, thanks for the reply. Yes - since you read this post I was corrected on
this point by a couple of others.
> 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
I've now installed 9.0 about 20 times (I kidd you not). I used the stock
kernel and the nonfb one, passing different things like:
acpi=no
mem=nopentium
noapic
I also used these settings for video:
blank
normal
640x480
800x600
on all of the different lilo entries I was using. Sometimes, an entry would
work just fine. You could do nothing but reboot, go back to that very same
entry and it wouldn't work then. I can't figure out why its so erratic and
unpredictable. It also does not want to shutdown correctly. At one point, I
had to reboot so much with incomplete shutdowns that I lost my "/" partition
and had to reinstall (switched to a journaling fs then <smile>).
I've got 3 comps here and have now installed 9.0 on 2 out of 3 with no
problems whatsoever. They are both older then my main computer. I've got this
gut feeling that if I stripped my main computer down to bare essentials it
would install just fine. I've got a Linksys NIC, WinTV tuner card, Adaptec
2930 SCSI card, SB Live, Geforce (AGP) 2, floppy, Zip, IBM HD, Toshiba SCSI
DVD, and a Plextor SCSI CDRW. Not the barest of setups, eh? :-)
It always locks up at the line that says "loading module dependencies" (or
something close to that).
I would blame faulty memory, controllers or the hard drive but v8.2
(powerpack) runs on this system *flawlessly*. I don't have to pass anything
to the kernel....
Thanks for any help! :-)
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