[GRLUG] IBM NetVista not booting graphical environment

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> john-thomas richards wrote:
> > When it does so, the monitor goes into sleep mode and requires a
> > hard reboot (the keyboard becomes unresponsive).  I thought this was odd
> > behavior so I got another *identical* machine (literally; he received a
> > donation of several identical machines from a local business) and tried
> > installing XP onto that blank drive (after formatting, of course).  Again the
> > monitor went into sleep mode.  I then booted the machine with a Knoppix CD.
> > The initial splash screen (complete with graphic and a "boot:" prompt) comes
> > up but when I type in "knoppix" to start Knoppix, the monitor again goes into
> > sleep mode and requires a hard reboot.  The behavior is identical with XP and
> > Knoppix on three machines.  I suspect it is an idiosyncracy with IBM hardware.
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> In addition to the other suggestions, you might try booting knoppix with
> "acpi=off" and "noamp".
> 
> suggesting

I tried 'acpi=off' as well as disabling power managment in the BIOS.
:-(
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john-thomas
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