From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: Durint boot, receive following: May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000007ee0000 - 0000000007ef0000 (ACPI data) May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007f00000 (ACPI NVS) May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: ACPI: BIOS age (1997) fails cutoff (2001), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: ACPI: Disabling ACPI support May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled. May 3 07:53:54 pookie kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled This is a P-III 900 mhz, with AMI BIOS dated 2001/10/23. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 (and previous) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2. 3. Actual Results: See above Expected Results: No message, ACPI enabled Additional info: See above
Can you attach the output of dmidecode?
Created attachment 114035 [details] dmidecode data Looking at the output of dmidecode, I think I see the problem. The release date is reported as 7/15/97, which does not correspond to the date displayed during boot. This is especially amusing, as the Pentium III wasn't released until 1999. Unless you have another suggestion, I will contact the manufacturer of the computer to see if they have a newer version available.
You can enable ACPI with acpi=force to override that disable. I'll add an auto-override for it for future FC4 kernels, but its really a BIOS bug. I doubt your vendor cares about a 4 year old board any more though, so its unlikely to get fixed by them.
Sorry for the delay getting back, I've been tied up with other stuff. Weird as it may seem, this box is brand new, from my viewpoint. The company I got it from had a lot of them left over, and was selling them off. I have contacted them, and they are looking into getting me an updated BIOS. Thanks for the help.