On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:20 -0500, Muhammad Ahmad wrote: > I have a Pentium II system with 384 MB of RAM. 6G Hard Drive. I > installed core 3 and everything went smoothly. Then the system tries > to boot and fails. It gives me a message like: > acpi date of bios (1998) does not pass cut-off (2001), acpi = force > must be used to start ACPI services > > Then the kernel starts to load and after initializing storage network > sound I get this message and a blinking cursor > kernel parameters: > > The system does not do anything after that. It just stays there. > > The PC is a Micron Millenia. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Thanks Would you mind setting your email client so you don't send HTML mail? It's a pain to read. Since the date of the bios apparently doesn't match the bios needed for the system to run, I would recommend that you visit Micron's website and look to see if they offer an updated bios for download - this may fix your problem. Sometimes Linux will put up a fuss if the bios isn't updated, this is my experience. You might also try the suggestion given before about installing the GRUB bootloader. You need to have a bootloader on the system before the system will boot properly. If you don't want to use GRUb, LILO is available as well. Jared
