5.3R p1 only boots in safe mode

secmgr security at jim-liesl.org
Thu Nov 25 12:57:33 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 00:22, Scott Long wrote:
> secmgr wrote:
> > Can someone point me to what "safe mode" sets so I can debug whats
> > broke?
> > 
> > thanks
> > jim
> > 
> 
> It disables ACPI, APIC, ATA DMA, ATAPI DMA, ATA Write Cache, and EISA.
> 
> Scott
Many thanks!  I tried disabling  ATA/ATAPI DMA.  That didn't work.  On a
hunch, I disabled device acpi and bata bing, it boots clean.  It's
acting as a server box, so I don't think I'm missing much.

As a reference, it's a MSI KM4M-V, and the system is using the SATA
drives



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