[Bug 1129511] [NEW] Unable to boot system unless acpi=off & "quiet splash" deleted from grub

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Basic hardware info:

MSI notebook,
Model GT70-0NC-008US; tag under the battery shows GT70-0NC-494US
Win 8 64 bit was pre-installed
Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor, 2.3 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
750GB HDD
16GB RAM
No raid

Am not running as a dual boot install.

Am running 64 bit version of Ubuntu 12.10.

As in summary, am unable to boot this system unless acpi=off and "quiet
splash" is deleted from grub.  This occurs with try it DVD, live USB and
HDD installation.  Also when installed to HDD.

I am running this as the only OS, NOT a dual boot.

I am able to boot, install and run 12.04 Precise 64 bit on this system,
BIOS in legacy mode for install and running from HDD.

Following steps in Debugging ACPT - Ubuntu Wiki
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingACPI) I have updated to the latest
BIOS on the box.

With 12.10 installed to HDD tried booting with all options given in the
Wiki with these results:

With acpi=off and "quiet splash" deleted, system boots ok and into
usable environment.  Note also that the Synaptics touchpad doesn't work
even with Synaptiks package installed.  Mouse works fine.

With acpi=noirq and "quiet splash" deleted system starts to boot and
stops with the following as last line:

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x9904: Init table command not found: 0xA9

With pnpacpi=off and "quiet splash" deleted system starts to boot and
stops with the following as last line, same as above:

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x9904: Init table command not found: 0xA9

With noapic and "quiet splash" deleted, system starts to boot and stops
with the following as last line, same as above:

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x9904: Init table command not found: 0xA9

With nolapic and "quiet splash" deleted, system starts to boot and stops
with the following as last line, same as above:

[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x9904: Init table command not found: 0xA9

In the troubleshooting steps I was unable to suspend or hibernate the
system so am unable to supply a /var/log/kern.log.0 file.  I have
attached a file, msi_acpi_debug_files.tar.gz that has a copy of output
from:

uname -a, sudo lspci -vvnn, sudo dmidecode.

I am unable to include a tarball of /proc/acpi directory as that
directory doesn't exist - I presume that since I need to boot from the
live USB with acpi off and/or having to boot without it the directory
wasn't created.

** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment quantal
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Unable to boot system unless acpi=off & "quiet splash" deleted from grub
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129511
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