Error message: MP-BIOS bug...

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 15 August 2008 17:35, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/15/2008 04:10 AM, Demetry wrote:
> > On 8/15/2008 2:54 AM, NoOp wrote:
> >> Did you change anything in your BIOS?
> >
> > No, I didn't. The BIOS in my computer is an ASUS M2N-E ACPI Rev. 0205
> > from June 30th, 2006. I think I should make an BIOS Update. But, have no
> > idea how I can this without sighted one.
>
> Good point.
>
> OK, from the LiveCD:
>
> - Boot
>
> - Select language (English is the default and will automatically default
> to that after 30 sec - or you can just hit enter. Deutch is 3 up arrows)
>
> - Press F5 to set your accessability options
>
> - Press F6 and enter: space noapic
> [where 'space' is standard space on the spacebar]
> and then hit the Enter key
>
> That will start the kernel with the no acpic (noapic) option set. See if
> that boots OK & let us know the results either way.

Another option to add to the kernel line is acpi=off, which I've had to use to 
boot both live cd's, and install cd's with my Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, and once 
the distro was installed, I've still had to append the kernel line in Grub 
with acpi=off.

Nigel.