Trevor Cordes wrote:
On  8 Oct, Dan Martin wrote:
  
I installed Fedora Core 4 to a pentium 3.  When I try to boot it I get a 
picture of Tux and an error to this effect:

ACPI:  BIOS age (2000) fails cutoff (2001).  acpi=force rqd to enable ACPI
    

Did you try booting with acpi=force in the boot command line?  In the
grub menu hit e to edit the options and add that to the end of the main
linux command line (middle line I think?).  If that works then add it to
the proper lines in grub.conf.
I tried adding acpi=force in the "kermel" command line of the Grub menu.  It makes no difference.

However, I have trouble booting Mandrake as well on that drive - I think there may be other issues not relevant to the error message.
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  -Dan

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