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Re: [LUG] Strange booting...

 

Yep, tried that... noacpi makes it completely fail to boot at all.

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:45:03 +0100, "Steph Foster"
<steph.p.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Try adding noacpi to the boot options by entering the grub options at
boot
> time
> 
> 2008/10/6 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have now managed to get BackTrack 3 Final installed to the harddrive
>> of my laptop.  It works very nicely bar one thing... it won't boot
>> nicely.
>>
>> Now, when I say "nicely", what I mean is this.  It will start to boot
>> (I presume) but the screen stays blank.  Should I provide the machine
>> with an ACPI event (power button, power cord removal/insertion, etc)
>> then the screen comes on and it starts/continues to boot properly...
>> until, that is, it reaches the "fd0 is 1.44mb" stage.  When it gets to
>> that part, if the power cord is not present, it freezes.
>>
>> I've tried various kernel options but nothing seems to make any
>> difference.
>>
>> Anyone got any thoughts?
>> Grant.
>>
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