[Feisty] acpi=force

[John Graddy]

Thank you VERY MUCH for this information.  I have had this same problem
since I installed Feisty and had just resigned myself to living with it.
Now I don't have to live with it.

John


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:51 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 
> > It looks to me like we're stuck having to edit the grub menu.lst file
> > every time there's a kernel update.
> 
> Bite your tongue!!! :-)
> 
> Of course you're not stuck doing such a thing.  There are a number of
> commented lines in the menu.lst:
> 
> ## default kernel options for automagic boot options
> # kopt=root=UUID=b317f8bc-4594-41e7-ba00-e5563f533330 ro
> 
> These are not so much comments as directives to "update-grub", which gets
> executed when you install a kernel.  Add your "acpi=force" to the end of
> the kopt line.  If you only wanted it on the default or alternate boot
> stanzas, you'd use the "defoptions" or "altoptions" lines, respectively,
> instead.
> 
> > It would be great if there were a "cleaner" way around it
> 
> and of course there is :-)  After adding the option to menu.lst, run "sudo
> update-grub".
> -- 
> derek
> 
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