Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:32:28 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 |
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Mark Lord wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> .. >> And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted a couple of times now, here's another: >> [ 0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. >> [ 0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override >> what the heck is that trying to tell me to do, in some sort of broken english? > .. > > I think it says this: > > "If your system is misbehaving, then try adding the acpi_use_timer_override > keyword to your kernel command line (/boot/grub/menu.lst) and see if it helps." > > So, you can either hardcode it in /boot/grub/menu.lst (just add it to the end > of the first line you see there that begins with the word "kernel". > > Or you can just try it temporarily at boot time (safer, but tricker), > by catching GRUB (the bootloader) before it actually loads Linux. > > Usually there's some key or something it says you have 3 seconds to hit for a "menu", > so do that, and then use the cursor keys to find the first "kernel" line in that menu > and hit "e" (edit) to go and add the acpi_use_timer_override keyword to the end of > that line (same as above). ..
Minor correction (having just tried it here): once you see the GRUB (boot) menu, hit the letter e to edit the first entry, then scroll to the "kernel" line, and hit the letter e again to edit that line. It should put you at the end of the line, where you can just type a space and then acpi_use_timer_override and then hit enter to finish the (temporary) edit. Then hit b for boot.
-ml
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