Installation Manual

24 Preparing the operating system environment
2. In the /etc directory, create a plain text file gds_hosts.equiv containing the following two lines:
3. If you are installing FirebirdSS to a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server system, once the Firebird SuperServer
is installed, open the file /etc/sysconfig/firebird with a text editor, search for the
START_FIREBIRD variable, and set its value to "yes". If the line does not exist, add it as follows:
If the file /etc/sysconfig/firebird does not exist, create it and add the above contents to it.
Disabling ACPI
Some kernels can have incomplete implementation of support for the Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface (ACPI). Enabled kernel support for ACPI causes problems on the symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
machines (the machines with multiple processors), and on machines with SCSI disk controllers. This means
that you need to disable the kernel support for ACPI before booting the SMP variant of a Linux kernel on a
SMP machine or an arbitrary kernel variant on a machine with SCSI disk controller. ACPI has to be
disabled on all supported distributions. The following additional boot-loader parameter disables ACPI:
However, with some configurations, this single parameter does not give the desired effect. In such cases, a
different set of boot-loader parameters must be specified to disable ACPI. Instead of the acpi=off string,
you must provide the following options:
See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/10/81_acpi.html
for information on kernel parameters to
control the ACPI code.
Depending on the boot loader you are using on the system, you need to modify the appropriate
boot-loader configuration file to disable ACPI.
Disabling ACPI with GRUB boot loader
To disable ACPI, you need to edit the GRUB configuration file /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the
syntax acpi=off to it.
The following is an example for supplying the required booting parameter to a kernel image that resides in
the directory /boot/bzImage on the system’s first hard drive:
Disabling ACPI with LILO boot loader
To disable ACPI, you need to edit the LILO configuration file and add the syntax append = "acpi=off"
to it. The LILO configuration file is usually /etc/lilo.conf.
This is an example for supplying the required booting parameter to a kernel image that resides in the
directory /boot/bzImage:
+
+localhost
# Start the Firebird RDBMS ?
#
START_FIREBIRD="yes"
acpi=off
acpi=oldboot pci=noacpi apm=power-off
title Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage acpi=off
image = /boot/bzImage
label = Linux
read-only
append = "acpi=off"