[Feisty] acpi=force

[Tommy Trussell]

On 3/28/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Thank you very much for your tip! Very helpful.

but I have one question which has bothered me for awhile:

> and of course there is :-)  After adding the option to menu.lst, run "sudo
> update-grub".

Is it ever necessary to run update-grub manually in Ubuntu? If it does
what the man page says, I can't see why it's necessary.

Thanks for the tip and any further explanation you can give!