[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu on P4

[Charl Wentzel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maia grotepass <maiatoday at gmail.com>
>
> Also sometimes I have had problems with non standard acpi 
> implementations on the motherboard. Symptoms I had from acpi problems 
> are sudden freezes and stops. You can tell it not to use acpi in the 
> options when starting up and installing. The option in the command 
> line is acpi=off but you may have to Google a bit.

Ah! Yeaj!  Thanks, that did it.  Now I can try to install Ubuntu on the
original harddrive!

To get into the system (since it did not want to boot:

1. booted from the (alternative) install cd and selected:
     "rescue a broken system"
2. Ran a shell on the root file system on the harddrive

The reason is that the default Xubuntu install hides the grub menu so
you can't select the recoverly console.

To set acpi=off:

1. Edit the file "/etc/default/grub" and set:
     GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=off"
2. ran "update-grub"

The reason for this is that this insures that acpi=off is always set
when update-grub is run, e.g. when a new kernel is downloaded and
installed.  Editing /boot/grub/grub.conf will be reset when update-grub
is run.

Hope this helps someone else

Charl