As promised, I "dumped" the error messages printed by the kernel on start. The log follows:
[<c0240b51>] pnp_assign_resources+0x281/0x2d0 [<c0240c1c>] pnp_auto_config_dev+0x7c/0xc0 [<c023eb0b>] pnp_alloc+0x1b/0x60 [<c0240c83>] pnp_activate_dev+0x23/0x50 [<c0241e7a>] quirk_smc_enable+0x1a/0x300 [<c0242cff>] pnpacpi_option_resource+0x11f/0x460 [<0x204d6b>] vsnprintf+0x54b/0x630 [<c0241df1>] pnp_fixup_device+0x41/0x50 [<c023e979>] __pnp_add_device+0x9/0xd0 [<c0418097>] pnpacpi_add_device_handler+0x217/0x2e0 [<c023099e>] acpi_ns_get_device_callback+0x131/0x14f [<c023205a>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x102/0x11c [<c02307e6>] acpi_get_devices+0x58/0x6b [<c023086d>] acpi_ns_get_device_callback+0x0/0x14f [<c0417e80>] pnpacpi_add_device_handler+0x0/0x2e0 [<c0417dbd>] pnpacpi_init+0x5d/0x90 [<c03fb591>] kernel_init+0x141/0x3b0 [<c010300a>] __switch_to+0xaa/0x1d0 [<c01271a3>] schedule_tail+0x53/0x120 [<c0104216>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x20 [<c03fb450>] kernel_init+0x0/0x3b0 [<c03fb450>] kernel_init+0x0/0x3b0 [<c0105627>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 =============== After the last message, the machine hangs and I have to do an hard reboot. -- 2.6.22-14-rt halts during boot on some computers, without the nosmp noapic nolapic kernel options https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175227 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