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Adrian Midgley wrote: > > I did try that ... although there seems to be noacpi as well as acpi=off > as long as the former isn't a typo for noapic The manual he says "acpi=off". There is a "pci=noacpi" which disables ACPI for PCI devices, but no idea on "noacpi" as an option on its own. > Nothing displayed. > For some reason I wonder if it might be > ide=nodma > that is required. Which reason? With just a CD on the IDE bus(?) I doubt it is a DMA issue unless it only crashes when accessing the CD, or attempting to, or shortly after accessing CDs. There is a fair chance GNOME and 2.6 kernels are exercising hotplug, and the power management software. Although if it really is a 486 there is a fair chance ACPI is disabled automatically on boot anyway, because I doubt the BIOS supports it. > I may try it next (the CD is on /dev/hda and the main drives are > /dev/sda and b) Can you describe the hardware a tad more. Does it really have multiple 486 processors, and it isn't in a museum? The bug report referred has some handy commands for listing relevant hardrware. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html