[Feisty] acpi=force

[Derek Broughton]

Tommy Trussell wrote:

> It looks to me like we're stuck having to edit the grub menu.lst file
> every time there's a kernel update.

Bite your tongue!!! :-)

Of course you're not stuck doing such a thing.  There are a number of
commented lines in the menu.lst:

## default kernel options for automagic boot options
# kopt=root=UUID=b317f8bc-4594-41e7-ba00-e5563f533330 ro

These are not so much comments as directives to "update-grub", which gets
executed when you install a kernel.  Add your "acpi=force" to the end of
the kopt line.  If you only wanted it on the default or alternate boot
stanzas, you'd use the "defoptions" or "altoptions" lines, respectively,
instead.

> It would be great if there were a "cleaner" way around it

and of course there is :-)  After adding the option to menu.lst, run "sudo
update-grub".
-- 
derek