In article <1227190609.31040.291.camel at lin-workstation.azapple.com>, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:43 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > > > My question is (at last): why did the installer decide it necessary to > > include "noapic acpi=off"? Previous installs of CentOS on other hardware > > have not done that. > ---- > I don't believe that anaconda would do that on its own. > > It would however, append any kernel options that you used when you > booted the installation disk so that's the likely place where it came > from. Ah, you're right - thanks! I used a pxe boot server to install, and had left those options in the config file from tests with a previous box. Mystery solved :-) Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org