Ok. I think I have the same problem here: First, I am trying to run Dapper on an ASUS A6000KT notebook. Relevant specs are here: http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1035&l1=5&l2=24&l3=134
I have the same problem where if there is anything plugged into a usb port (mouse, thumb drive, external HD etc.) Ubuntu will fail to boot, freezing at the 'Unpacking/loading kernel' message. The current (as of posting) Dapper kernel has this problem. Using the recovery mode I manually copied the boot messages directly before the freeze. These are given below: [4294670.460000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [4294670.461000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [4294670.483000] Memory: 1028576k/1048384k available (1976k kernel code, 19156k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 130880k highmem) [4294670.483000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [4294670.544000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3601.53 BogoMIPS (|pj=1800769) [4294670.544000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [4294670.544000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [4294670.544000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [4294670.544000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) [4294670.544000] CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line) [4294670.544000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) [4294670.544000] CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-34 stepping 02 [4294670.544000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [4294670.544000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [4294670.544000] Checking 'hlt' instructions... OK. [4294670.548000] checking if image is initramfs... it is [4294670.110000] Freeing initrd memory: 6836k freed [4294670.119000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found! [4294670.155000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs What I believe to be the same problem has been reported for another ASUS notebook on the forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211138 Workarounds include: * unplugging all usb devices for every boot. * adding 'acpi=off' to the boot command * disabling USB devices in BIOS However none of these are very satisfactory :(. Hope this info is helpful. :) Thanks. -- Failed kernel bootload https://launchpad.net/bugs/37387 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
