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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