From: Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:49:11 PM
Subject: Re: ACPI messages in syslog
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:41 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
> > ----
> > I'm not sure that noacpi is an option...perhaps you mean noacpi=1
> >
> > you can also boot with the param 'acpi=off' but that is what is known
as
> > the 'big hammer'
> >
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
> Okay, I've asked that question a dozen times on here, what's the option
> to shut off acpi. I've been told 'noacpi' every time. Not
'noacpi=1'.
> I've also been told acpi=off doesn't work/isn't used any more.
>
> Used to I'd add noacpi,acpi=off to my kernel boot line. Then I was told
> acpi=off wasn't used (or whatever). So, now I'm really confused.
----
I'm no expert - that's why I provided the link. acpi=off clearly is a
valid option (they label it the big hammer)
You may need to pass additional options, or better yet disable at the BIOS. More info on
this page: