[ale] Ubuntu no go

[James Sumners]

This is a likely culprit. Sometimes ACPI isn't properly implemented in
the motherboard's BIOS and the Linux driver just doesn't get along
with it well.

On 1/11/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> a google search turned up lots of hits..
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/22148
>
> this one sounds the best, something about acpi=off mode :
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=266347
>  Re: Ubuntu boots as far as 'Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel'
> and then s
> Try this
>
> in GRUB, select the kernel you want to boot but instead of pressing enter,
> press "e", then go to the line ending with "ro quiet splash", add "noapic
> nolapic" at the end and then try booting. If it still doesn't work,
> try "acpi=off".


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