Fedora with IBM ThinkPad R40e

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Dec 12 20:07:19 UTC 2003


> i added this option acpi=on to the end of my grub
> command line as the following:
> 
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
>         root (hd0,5)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro
> root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb acpi=on
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> 
> but then, every time fedora starts up, it is hanging
> always when the status shows "set up hostname", so the
> start up never successfully completed, and i have to
> switch off the power button manually.
> 
> what was possibly wrong with setting acpi=on?

The kernel's ACPI code is disagreeing with your BIOS. You
can file a bug in bugzilla; you're best off removing the
'acpi=on' for now.

Bill





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