HELP!!!!! Please

[energymedia]

Good afternoon folks.

 

I am a complete newbie to linux and I believe I have done something wrong. I am running 9.2 on my laptop and noticed that I did not have any of the power management services installed and running.

 

Therefore, I installed the APCI modules and rebooted. Now my system will not boot.

 

Does anyone know of a way for me to fix this, short of re-installation?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bvc]

I moved it.

 

What laptop?

Which bootloader?

Do you know if the bootloader's config was modified and to what? (acpi=ht, acpi=on etc...)

Did you install acpi and acpid?....AND disable apmd at boot (not always necessary).

[energymedia]

Laptop is a Presario 2100

 

I installed the ACPI and ACPID. I do not know if the bootloader config was modified. Do not know about APMD.

[pmpatrick]

You can try this to get it to boot. As soon as you see the lilo boot screen hit F1. That will take you to a boot prompt at which you should type "linux noapic acpi=off" w/o quotes and then hit the Enter key. I think that should overide whatever you did and we can work on setting things straight.

[energymedia]

Thanks so much. It is much nicer working in Linux than it was in Windows. I am going to disable the ACPI services.

 

I am trying to learn linux as much as I can while still working as a Windows consultant. As soon as I am up to speed on linux, I will get all my clients switched over as well.