I'm sorry I did not know I was to respond to this thread here, instead I responded via email.
I carefully noted all the events in that email, I don't have a copy. briefly: acpi=force did nothing to help me boot Ubuntu. -- 0.000000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156711 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
