[Bug 37387] Re: Failed kernel bootload

[krazyd]

Ok. I think I have the same problem here:

First, I am trying to run Dapper on an ASUS A6000KT notebook. Relevant
specs are here:
http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1035&l1=5&l2=24&l3=134

I have the same problem where if there is anything plugged into a usb
port (mouse, thumb drive, external HD etc.) Ubuntu will fail to boot,
freezing at the 'Unpacking/loading kernel' message. The current (as of
posting) Dapper kernel has this problem.

Using the recovery mode I manually copied the boot messages directly
before the freeze. These are given below:

[4294670.460000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[4294670.461000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[4294670.483000] Memory: 1028576k/1048384k available (1976k kernel code, 19156k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 130880k highmem)
[4294670.483000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[4294670.544000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3601.53 BogoMIPS (|pj=1800769)
[4294670.544000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[4294670.544000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[4294670.544000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[4294670.544000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[4294670.544000] CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
[4294670.544000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[4294670.544000] CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-34 stepping 02
[4294670.544000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[4294670.544000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[4294670.544000] Checking 'hlt' instructions... OK.
[4294670.548000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[4294670.110000] Freeing initrd memory: 6836k freed
[4294670.119000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[4294670.155000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs

What I believe to be the same problem has been reported for another ASUS
notebook on the forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211138

Workarounds include:
* unplugging all usb devices for every boot.
* adding 'acpi=off' to the boot command
* disabling USB devices in BIOS

However none of these are very satisfactory :(.

Hope this info is helpful. :) 
Thanks.

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Failed kernel bootload
https://launchpad.net/bugs/37387