ACPI, noacpi, acpi=off (wasError message: MP-BIOS bug...)

[NoOp]

On 08/30/2008 04:56 PM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> Olá NoOp e a todos.
> 
> On Friday 15 August 2008 16:35:20 NoOp wrote:
>> - Press F6 and enter: space noapic That will start the kernel with
>> the no acpic (noapic) option set. See if that boots OK & let us
>> know the results either way.
> 
> I've seen many, many remarks to the use of this flags for the kernel
> or grub, but never got to use them. Can you point me in the direction
> of extra information about this?

This might help:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
[you may be able to find in other languages as well, I'm not sure:
http://tldp.org/]

> 
> What do they change, why do kernels fail, etc?
> 

Why is the sky blue? :-)