How my Poweredge 1300 got its 2.6 kernel

I've had bad troubles getting my Dell Poweredge 1300 to boot the shiny new Debian 2.6 kernel I downloaded for it. It got stuck when trying to mount the IDE drive (the system SCSI worked fine). After a tip from a colleague i added "acpi=off noapic nolapic" to the kernel option in /boot/grub/menu.lst and now it boots fine! I'm really not going to miss acpi since it's an always on server anyway...
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