Upgrade from FC2 -> FC3 failed

[James Wilkinson]

Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
> Does that acpi stuff have anything to do with it?  I tried adding the
> force option to the kernel parameters, but it didn't change anything.

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> No, ACPI fails as the BIOS is too old.

FWIW, acpi=force overrides the age check. There *are* BIOSes from before
2000 that can do ACPI correctly, and rather more that can do them well
enough that Linux can work with them.

This system is an aging dual-processor box, and the only way I've
discovered to get it to auto power down is by adding acpi=force to the
kernel command line.[1]

James.

[1] OK: there are two other ways. I could always run in single processor
mode, in which case APM could shut it down (APM doesn't work for SMP),
or I can "fix" the kernel's age check.

2.6.9 gives you a kernel option for the cut-off date, which simplifies
things.

I am running the last BIOS for this motherboard.

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