On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:56:20AM +1200, Paul M wrote: > On 21/05/2011, at 8:01 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > >>>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. > > > >You need the information in the panic message and trace. > >If you want to help get the problems with those machines tracked > >down, you need to get that information, maybe take a photo and > >type it in from there. > > > >If the panic message itself has scrolled off "show panic" > >should show it again. > > > >The only way disabling ACPI is helpful, is if the machine saves the > >dmesg buffer between boots, then you may be able to get the panic, > >boot -c, disable acpi, and save the information. > > Turns out it does, so here it is:
Could you try a recent kernel on that machine and see if it works? If it doesn't please send the same information, but from the new kernel. Better yet, use sendbug(1) and attach the AML as well. Thanks!
