Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation
On Saturday 08 August 2009 03:21 pm, Sine 39 wrote:
> The setting for APIC Mode (which is currently showing as 'enabled') in my
> BIOS appears in light blue with a cross next to it, meaning I cannot change
> it. This may be because I need to change another setting in order to be
> able to configure APIC Mode, I know this because this applies to some other
> settings.
>
> Any idea what I might need to do in order to make APIC Mode available to
> configure? I have tried searching it but the only thing I came accross was
> something saying you cannot configure APIC mode once you have installed an
> operating system which makes no sense to me since the BIOS loads before any
> operating system and doesn't reside on the hard drive. I tried tricking the
> BIOS into thinking there was no operating system by disabling the hard
> drive but this didn't work and I wouldn't expect it to since how can the
> BIOS know whether an OS is installed anyway when it doesn't load
> information from the HD.
>
> > From: mark@neidorff.com
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Trying to boot Lenny after installation
> > Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:36:00 -0400
> >
> > From the first boot, the code c0117b60 has to do with the apic system.
> > Have you tried to change its settings in your bios (turned it off)? I
> > don't have direct experience, but I did a google search for the code and
> > came up with apic.
I don't claim to be a bois expert, but can you either totally reset the bios
into a "default" mode or update the bios to a newer version so that you can
change the apic setting?
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