On Sat, 21 May 2011, Paul M wrote:
>On 20/05/2011, at 12:27 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
>
>> FWIW I've encountered several ASUS notebooks which panic during boot
>> (in aml_parse or parse_aml, I can't remember which is correct); since
>
>aml_xparse
>
>> these are store demo machines I don't have any good way to capture the
>> detailed information (I'm booting from a USB stick and saving the dmseg
>> to the stick.) If there's some small amount of information that can be
>> gotten without any additional hardware, etc, and would help diagnose
>> these problems, I'll write it down and report it if someone tells me
>> exactly how to get it. The panic info is long enough that some of it
>> scrolls off the screen.
>
>I've tried such a laptop, booting from usb stick does indeed fail as
>you describe, however booting from the install cd (4.9 release) works
>just fine.
>
>Disabling acpi will allow the system to boot from the usb stick.
Thanks for the info. I'll try disabling ACPI the next time I encounter
one of these.
Dave
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