Re: Can't boot Acer 240 Laptop

[Danny Brow <fms@istop.com>]

Fix, ACPI was the issue with it the whole time, but the last few tries I
forgot to that I had frame buffer support removed from the kernel and
lilo configured for high console. 

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:39, Danny Brow wrote:
> I have tried to compile the 2.4.23-pre9 and 2.4.23-rc4 both will not
> boot this laptop.
> 
> Laptop details
> intel 2.5 celeron
> 256 MB RAM
> 852GME Chipset
> Slackware (if this really matters)
> 
> What I have done.
> Compiled kernel 2.4.23-pre9, from fresh source. 
> 
> First try:
> Intel P4 support, defaults for mostly everything, ACPI,  APM, FB,
> ide-scsi, 8139too, and ICH sound.
> 
> 2nd
> Everything above but changed CPU to P3.
> No boot (also tried with the acpi=off option in lilo.)
> 
> 
> 3rd.
> rm kernel source, fresh source with 2.4.23-rc4 patch.  P4, ACPI, APM,
> FB, ide-scsi, ich sound.
> Same problem.
> 
> 4th
> Same as above but removed FB support.
> No boot again.
> 
> 5th
> p3, no acpi, apm, no FB, ide-scsi.
> Same problem.
> 
> As you can see I can't figure this out for the life of me.  I am trying
> 2.4.23-pre4 with out SMP.  Maybe that will work.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Dan.
> 
> 
> 
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