Re: [Nolug] Community project: Mail/web server for Mischa DAY FOUR

From: -ray <ray_at_ops.selu.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:38:00 -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411081834550.6397-100000@romulus.csd.selu.edu>

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mischa Krilov wrote:

> During boot, I happened to notice an ACPI complaint about "ACPI disabled
> because your bios is from 2000 and too old." Witty. I just updated the
> BIOS on this system (habit), and I know it could handle ACPI. Research
> reveals that adding "acpi=force" to the kernel options at boot will
> resolve this. Plus, it worked when I tested it. Now in the process of
> figuring out how to add that permanently to GRUB.

Neat, i had that problem before. You should be able to add it to the line
that starts with 'kernel' in the grub.conf file.

> GRUB:
> I know I'm a patient fellow, but it loads *WAY* too slow. Easily ten to
> twenty seconds. Thoughts?

Is it getting past the BIOS POST? What's on the screen during that 10-20
seconds?

> SMP:
> Now I have two procs BIOS detects both okay, /proc/cpuinfo doesn't.
> Thoughts?

and you're running an smp kernel?

ray

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