Also confirming that with Intel BIOS LF94510J.86A, Ubuntu 9.04 (64-bit) installs and operates correctly. Note that even with updated BIOS, I am unable to correctly boot or operate the 8.10 OS release. On the other hand, going WAY back to an old v6 disc I found, works fine (presumably due to the *lack* of ACPI support in that vintage).
I appears that a workaround is still desirable and possible for the 8.x LTS stream, and likely for the 9.x stream also - we have multiple hardware vendors represented in this tree of bug reports, not all of whom are providing updated BIOSes. The problem appears to be isolated to ACPI initialization: booting non-ACPI-aware kernels seems to work just fine, as do other OSes that do not rely on the ACPI DTs for hardware initialization, e.g. older OpenBSD and NetBSD, DOS, etc. I think this should be re-escalated to kernel development; there's already precedent for in-kernel ACPI fixups (e.g. ASUS P4B-DS motherboard, off the top of my head) and it looks like this will likely affect a wide variety of Atom-based systems. Odd that it's Atom- specific, but chipset-independent, though. -- x86_64 kernel oops on boot (dual-core Atom 330 board D945GCLF2) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279186 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
