On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 00:27, David Chambers wrote: > Thank you Omar! - I had totally not thought of ACPI. Adding acpi=off to boot fixes the problem completely. > > Given the problems which ACPI seems to be causing - including people's problems in FC2 - wouldn't it be a good idea to default it to "off" until it behaves a bit better? I realize that the dev kernels are just that, but to have the entire system not boot on a whim of ACPI's strikes me as a bit counterproductive... (my $0.02, refundable upon request :-) This should be fixed properly in the next kernel that Arjan pushes out. Binary search on patches since the last working kernel and first broken one took a while, but it turned out to be something (sort of) trivial. PS: Your mail client isn't wrapping lines correctly. Dave