Some more update: I was using the following boot options:
noquiet nosplash acpi=off After that, I was able to read the messages, probably because acpi=off prevents the reboot. It stopped at io scheduler cfq (registered) I have disabled legagy USB support in the BIOS of the latop, after that, I got beyond this point. I played a bit with various options and it looks like at least nosplash and acpi=off are required in order to boot. I have also seen a strange message: sda<4>:Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use buy_type methods together with some I/O errors on sr1. Not sure what that means. Interesting enough, neither just acpi=off nor nosplash does not do the trick. I should add that since reporting the bug, I have switched to the nightly build of the LiveCD from Oct 9th, 2008. Of course it would be nice to a) fix ACPI b) fix the "io scheduler cfq (registered)" hang But I have no idea how one might debug ACPI related problems, because as soon as the problem is there, the laptop will reboot and you cannot access it anymore. -- Laptop Reboots when trying to start LiveCD or Install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
