[ug-bosug] Re: What does no ACPI do in belenix?

[Moinak Ghosh]

Anil Gulecha wrote:
> Unfortunately, I was hasty with my mail. It looks like BeleniX booted 
> compleely by fluke this one time. I am unable to boot it now either in 
> ACPI mode or without it. The worst is that the behaviour is 
> unpredictable and very erratic.
>
> Anything I can do to elaborate the issue? Output of some command perhaps?

   ACPI stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. Basically 
relates to
   power management, thermal states and related stuff. USM Bish 
explained it quite
   a bit.

   I had seen problems similar to your case with another person as well. 
My guess
   is ACPI is using a segment of  your hi memory area to store 
information. If that
   overlaps with where the boot archive is to be loaded you are screwed.

   Go to GRUB Screen and press "c" to go to command line mode. Run the 
command
   displaymem.  Post the output here (I know its a bit tedious to write 
down).

   Also what do you mean by cannot boot ?  What error messages ?

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> ~Anil
>
> On 5/11/07, *Anil Gulecha* < anil.verve at gmail.com 
> <mailto:anil.verve at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I recently upgraded to 1gb of RAM (from 512 MB). I used to select
>     the first option from the belenix grub on the LiveCD and things
>     worked fine. However, since the upgrade, the startup started
>     behaving erratically and I almost never got XFCE or KDE running. I
>     finally tried with the no ACPI mode and things booted fine.
>
>     So just wondering what exactly the ACPI stuff is, and why 1 GB RAM
>     was able to break belenix in this way?
>
>     Regards
>     Anil
>
>
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