man, 04.10.2004 kl. 14.18 skrev James Wilkinson: > Tor Harald Thorland was having trouble with a USB disk. > > James suggested: > > ... booting with acpi=off (at the end of the kernel comand line: > Tor replied: > > Yes, Its getting further... I can now mount /dev/sda1 to /mnt/flash (or > > wathever) when I have the ACPI=off. > >James: > Hooray. You have nailed down the problem to the ACPI subsystem. > > >Tor: > > I tryed to make the ACPI=noirq. Then the I rebooted, and the computer > > hang, right after the graphical boot said: setting hostname (or > > something.. I have norwegian text on it) Also the my usb mouse dident > > work during this startup (it normaly does work). > >James: > Hmm. I suspect we can get the USB mouse to work later. > > What happens if you turn off quiet and rhgb in the kernel command line > (the same place you put the acpi=noirq)? It will still hang, we just > might get to see what's causing the hanging. I have turned them off now, and got the following: Before the welcome to fedora..... I had some ACPI errors, it is too much text to write down and reproduce her, is there some way to log the startup text to a file or something? After the welcome i got the following: (Freely translated from norwegian to english) Setting hostname localhost [OK] Initializing USB controller (ohci-hcd) [OK] Mounting USB-filesystem [OK] Then the system hang.... Is there also a way to keep the whole starup in English instead of norwegian? >James: > One other thing to consider: I don't know if your laptop supports APM, > the older equivalent. You might investigate turning ACPI off > permanently, which should enable APM. You'd then have to configure the > laptop to use APM to do laptop-style stuff like power management and > suspend. I can't really help you there. > I have a 1 year old Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A7600.... If anyone reading this has some info on this please supply it :-) I've tryed the power management thing without success Thanx Again! Tor Harald Thorland
