Computer won't restart if turn off!

[Darren Mansell]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 08:56 -0400, Ashley Benton wrote:
> Hi, thank you for your answer
> You told me to try booting Ubuntu with "acpi=off noapic " appended to
> the boot parameters but I have no idea how to do that. Could you tell
> me how I would do that please?
> Thank you 
> Megan

Press escape as the boot menu comes up (by default you have about 3
seconds)

press e to edit, add those options to the ones already there, press b to
boot 

(or something like that, it should make sense when you do it.)