as per your : [ 0.000000] Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole [ 0.000000] Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup [ 0.000000] This costs you 64 MB of RAM ... [ 0.338295] mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings [ 0.338296] mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs.
Hence, as per http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=M4A89GTD%20PRO/USB3&os=29 an update is available for your BIOS (3029). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate , does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and just provide the output of the following terminal command: sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette . Thank you for your understanding. ** Tags added: bios-outdated-3029 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103187 Title: xfs left inconsistent after reboot, causing grub to fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1103187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs