Saturday, May 12, 2007

Boot Acronis True Image 10 with acpi=off parameter

Notice: This is MY HOMEMADE SKILL, without warranty of data/hardware safety!

Acronis True Image is a backup software with eazy-to-understand interface and powerful functions. It can restore your system form a bare machine. But for some PC and laptop to boot Acronis True Image from CD/Secure Zone will seem to fail, the official answer to this problem is that those mainboard/BIOS does not go with acpi features which is needed by Acronis by default.

To solve the problem, the user have to press F11 kye before start Acronis True Image (full version), and add the parameter "acpi=off noacpi" (the quotation mark should not be included) manually.

It's so awful to do this every time, so can we just make the parameter default?

The anwser is YES. Browse to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\" find f11.cfg, open it with any text editor like notepad, and add the acpi=off parameter after the kernel parameter, just like this:(the added is in bold character)

[start]

echo Starting Acronis True Image...

initrd ramdisk.dat /s

kernel kernel.dat quiet acpi=off noacpi

quiet on

mbrcrcs on

vga vesa

Re-active the Starup Recovery Manager to update the f11.cfg file in the secure zone, build a new boot disk, and enjoy :)

This works well on my ACER laptop, and hopefully it will be helpful to you.

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