ACPI Bios.... no luck

Forum: Laptops
Topic: ACPI Bios.... no luck
started by: Cyborg73703

Posted by Cyborg73703 on Jan. 16 2007,01:21

Hey, I just got a Toshiba Satellite 2800 for free, and was talking to a friend, and this is what he suggested (DSL) so I figured Id give it a try.

I have the CD Burnt off, and when I go to boot, it will get as far as:

Processor 0 is Celeron (Coppermine) 696MHz, 128 KB Cache.
ACPI Bios found, activation modules: ac battery button fan processor thermal

Once it gets there, the screen just hangs, the CD doesnt spin anymore.

I am hoping this is a bootup issue, but I am leaning more and more towards the CD Rom drive being a little flaky

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 16 2007,01:31

Did you try out some boot/cheatcodes ?
(press F2/F3 or check out the wiki page on cheatcodes)

You might want to try "dsl noacpi acpi=off" or just failsafe for starters.

Posted by Cyborg73703 on Jan. 16 2007,02:00

I tried to use that cheatcode, but I guess I didnt put it in right. when that acpi=off entered, it now goes through good. Thanks for the help.

Now, Im going to be installing this to the hard drive, (30 GB) any suggestions on what I should do?

I have it formatted already, but I will have to format it for use with DSL will I not?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 16 2007,06:25

Well, it can pretty much be any format (probably excluding ntfs), but ext2 is currently recommended.

Posted by Cyborg73703 on Jan. 16 2007,08:21

I think I might be starting to get off the topic here, but Instead of making a new topic:

I have installed DSL using a Floppy bootdisk for a USB Stick (As stated above my CD Rom is on the fritz) by going "Right Click" ->Apps -> Tools ->Frugal Install ->Frugal Grub Install

Target Partition to hold image: hda1
Install From: p - pendisk
Install y Uprgade n: y
Last Chance: y
(noacpi and acpi=off should already be in, as they were used at startup)
It goes through its handy thing and I shutdown so I can see if it works.

I press "DSL" on the GRUB option line.
It goes through the normal startup (running off of HDD)
But then once again it gets hung up on the ACPI Line, now it reads "Skipping ACPI Bios detection as requested on boot commandline."

EDIT: Nevermind, when I did the Grub Installer, I guess the acpi=off line didnt cary over as I thought it would (or read somewhere anyways).

Now everytime I boot up though, will I have to go in and change that, or will it remain that way now?

Posted by roberts on Jan. 16 2007,13:43

Just edit grub's menu.lst, as root

sudo vi /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

unless you are also running toram mode in which case you will have to fiirst mount the partition from which you booted and then

sudo vi /mnt/hdxy/boot/grub/menu.lst

Also, sometimes acpi=force will work with marginal acpi systems.