[brlug-general] Home file server help

[Andrew Baudouin]

I'm thinking that a 500 Mhz compaq doesn't support ACPI anyway.  I 
wonder what a Linux LiveCD would see your root partition as?

Joe Fruchey wrote:
> I tried adding 'noacpi' and 'acpi=off', and neither worked. Thanks, though.
>
> On 4/29/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
>   
>> That Fedora set up is cool.  Many moons ago people used to use a /boot
>> partition to get around BIOS boot disk size limitations.  It's neat to see
>> they remembered the trick and applied it to LVM.  The same thing can be done
>> by making a small root partion and mounting most of the file system,
>> like /usr, /var and /home, from other partitons.  Dustin has a nifty default
>> set up, but I gave up most of that because BIOS booting got easier.  I'll
>> still mount /usr and some others from a nice fast scsi drive.
>>
>> ACPI is something the kernel tries to use, regardless of BIOS settings.  An
>> older machine won't have it and the kernel ACPI can make trouble.  You
>> disable it with a boot option or two, "acpi=off" and "noacpi".  As an example
>> the grub menu.lst on this machine, /boot/grub/menu.lst, has:
>>
>> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686
>> root            (hd0,0)
>> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off
>> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
>>
>> You can edit that file to add the options from a live CD and you can usually
>> edit the boot options by some keystroke your distribution should tell you
>> about.
>>
>> I hope that helps.
>>
>> On Friday 27 April 2007 10:19 am, Joe Fruchey wrote:
>>     
>>>  I tried running the default Ubuntu 7.04 server install
>>> last night using standard guided partitioning (no LVM) only on hda,
>>> and it does the same thing. I have no options in the BIOS config for
>>> ACPI or APM. Hell, I'm surprised they gave me boot order, piece of
>>> crap machine.
>>>       
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