Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 03.05.02 at 15:36, dep wrote:

> | > again, a checkbox early on (and one to disable
> | > hardware detection),
> |
> | Not a check box (that won't work on systems without mice) but as I
> | told you earlier this week (!) there's a 'safeboot' option which
> | does this.
>
> presumably suse remains capable of programming hotkeys for those who
> do not have mice. and the safe boot option turns off a lot more than
> acpi. i have never heard of a situation where faulty acpi made ide
> dma not work, for instance.


Hold on. When the system is booting up, you only have the grub/lilo menu,
there is no support for checkboxes. Perhaps you should talk to grub/lilo
developpers to add them! :-)

Seriously, I agree that the safeboot option is an overkill. So? What I do
is _edit_ the boot up line (just press any key when the menu pops up) and
add acpi=off, or delete ide=nodma from the failsafe entries. Probably
deleting things from the failsafe line is easier, and I think it is
mentioned on the manual.

Those lines are editable during boot, so you can try them.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson