SPECIALIST125 Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Ok when I hit the f1 key and get the command line I used both linux acpi=off nopcmcia and livecd acpi=off nopcmcia but only the linux acpi = off nopcmcia was reconized. From what I can see during inialization I get to the point where it say's "uncompressing Linux...ok, booting the kernel." Then the screen flashes a few times and the computer reboots itself. *note When I tried other live cd my computer hanged at this spot. The cd would eventually stop spinning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Are there any BIOS settings to disable ACPI? And notice that "acpi=off" should be typed without any spaces between the chars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Are there any BIOS settings to disable ACPI?And notice that "acpi=off" should be typed without any spaces between the chars. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I will check my bios but I dont think their is. Also I might have typed it with a space so I'll try it without Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Thanks alot scarecrow acpi=off did the trick. So let me ask you want does it mean. I'm trying to gain as much knowledge possiible. I play around with this for a while to try to get the hang of things I dont think I saw a documentation page for move so can I just use one of the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an open industry specification co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba. ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on laptops, desktops, and servers. ACPI evolves the existing collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management (APM) application programming interfaces (APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables and so on into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification. The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together. quote = http://www.acpi.info acpi=off simply ignores the BIOS' ACPI-setting in Linux. Most machines ACPI settings work with Linux flawlessly, and some machines (especially Laptops) should basically support ACPI for full usage of e.g. hibernate and other options and getting the most out of your battery, but it is not really necessary for many desktop systems. But if it works, the much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECIALIST125 Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 thanks for the info. All I have to do know if learn my way around the system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/index.html Those two links might be a good start. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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