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ubuntu 7.10 won't boot on Asus M2a-mvp mainboard (acpi related?)

Bug #155349 reported by sblanz
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Bug Description

Official Ubuntu 7.10 downloaded. Md5 checksum verified.

after reboot with burned cd inserted it loads the boot menu, but as I choose anything it loads kernel, then shows the Ubuntu logo with a moving loading bar, but nothing else happens.

On feisty this happened too, but it was possible to boot with the "acpi=off" grub options. (side effect: it was impossible to automatically shutdown. you had to manually switch off the computer after halting).
Now this is unuseful. It hangs anyway and nothing happens even with noapic nolapic or pci=noacpi.

So, despite this worked in feisty, it seems it's completely impossible to boot gutsy on asus m2a-mvp mainboard.

This seems to be a ACPI backward step.

Tags: acpi boot gutsy
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Mathieu HAVEL (mathieu-havel) wrote :

Hi,

I have an Asus M2N and I experienced quite the same problem than you since Edgy version.
I've just finished to install Gusty on this labtop with these options passed to grub :
nolapic noapic ide_generic_all

Once Gusty installed, you just need to keep the "nolapic" option (others seem not to be a problem).

I hope it helps...

Mathieu Havel

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sblanz (lanzato) wrote :

Thank you Mathieu. As described below, I managed to solve this problem. However, when I'll install Gutsy, if I'll have more booting problems I'll try your hints!

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I have to apologyse with developers and you, but my troubles depended on my mistakes.

During my tests with Gutsy live cd, I used to hard-reboot when it hanged after booting. I did like this because I already tried several times with fiesty, and when my cd drive stopped spinning because of acpi trobules, this meant it just freezed.
Now, I accidentally found out that if I leave it loading more, after a couple of minutes my cd drive starts spinning again and, even if very slowly, the gnome session begins. So I investigated booting without kernel options like "quite" or "splash", and I found out that gutsy stopped because it was looking for a floppy drive that I don't have, but that is indeed set on Bios.
So I removed the floppy drive from bios and now my gutsy cd live loads perfectly. Just, I must say, it's really slow to load.

More, this means that Gutsy live cd, differently from Feisty, can boot without acpi=off, and in fact, if I halt my system from gnome, surprise surprise... the system halts!

So, this is not at all a backward step with acpi, but a forward one! Now my mainboard is acpi supported by ubuntu! (at least on live cd... ;) )

So, at least on my side, this problem is "solved".
Next week I will format and install gutsy, I really hope everything will work even after installation.

thanks everybody and, again, my apologyses.

bye!
sblanzio

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