On 2/19/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
However, leaving acpi alone and changing the timeout in grub.conf from 5 to 10 seconds (which I did for another reason -- the monitor wasn't coming on until the 5 seconds was already past) seems to have cleared it up.
Some more info in case it rings bells for anyone:
Early in the boot sequence, this message appears:
MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Googling seems to indicate that this is an old/known nForce problem, has been patched for in recent kernels, and shouldn't be related. Am I wrong about that?
Later, during (?) kudzu hardware detection / just before pcmcia is enabled, I get
FATAL: Module acpi not found
Nevertheless kuzdu says "OK" and the boot proceeds.
Finally (and this is clearly unrelated) smartd always fails to start.