After a few more experimenting, I found out that putting nolapic instead of acpi=off allows the netbook to boot with ACPI enabled. This seems to be the better solution to booting these machines.
Please close this bug. Cheers! -- Kernel 2.6.32-17-generic won't boot without acpi=off on eMachine eM250 netbook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546645 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
