Re: ext3 trouble

[Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> A slim possibility is that you have acpi enabled on an nforce2 chipset.
> If thats the case, either shut it off, or go upgrade the bios to the 
> latest as that fixed some other, non-disk related problems that 
> several of us have had with that chipset.

I subscribe to three email echoes about Linux, and I see a
recurrent theme: mysterious errors, solved by booting with
ACPI turned off.

ISTM that either: Linux just doesn't properly support ACPI, or
BIOS implementors just don't know how to get it right.

Either way (and I don't care which) perhaps the default boot
should be with ACPI turned off, and add an option to turn it
on.

I had several mysterious problems with my machine until I
put "acpi=off" into my grub.conf.

Stock Windows XP has no problems with the ACPI on my machine.

Mike
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