Public bug reported: I have to use the acpi=off boot paramater to successfully boot the Gutsy 7.10 final live CD on a Compaq Presario F600. The computer uses an AMD mobile Sempron and an nForce chipset. Using the Slax Standard edition, I have no problems. (http://www.slax.org/)
I've tried the following boot parameters with no success: idle=poll, acpi_use_timer_override, acpi_skip_timer_override, noapic, nolapic, acpi=noirq, pci=noacpi, pci=biosirq pnpbios=off, irqpoll, ** Affects: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- boot hangs on Compaq laptop with nForce chipset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157282 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs