Thinkpad R40e lock up at installer main menu

[Marcus Ahnve]

Your problem is related to the processor ACPI module. To enable the
install, add the boot parameter "acpi=off" to grub. 

You  do want ACPI however to monitor the battery etc. To enable it after
install you need to recompile the kernel, either without the processor
module, or with a manual patch described in http://pc.freeshell.org/tp/ 

After doing this you need to remove the "acpi=off" which Ubuntu
automagically adds to the boot command line.

Best regards /Marcus

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:40 +1100, Tim Leslie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently trying to install warty on my thinkpad R40e and I'm
> running into some problems. Short story: The installer totally locks
> up at the first screen of the installer.
> 
> Long story: I've downloaded the warty installer iso from the website,
> burnt it to cd and successfully used it to install my PC. I've also
> ran the built in CD integrity checker which returned no errors, so I'm
> confident the CD itself is fine.
> 
> I previously had a bastardised knoppix install on the laptop but I
> kind of mutilated this so thought I'd go for a complete clean install.
> 
> So, I stick the CD in the drive, turn on the laptop, the boot prompt
> comes up, I hit enter for the default install. It gets to the lines:
> 
>  Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd.
>  Trying to enable the frame buffer...
> 
> And then locks up. After some investigation on a different laptop we
> found that the next thing it should have done had to do with usb, so I
> reboot and at the prompt run "linux debian-installer/probe/usb=false"
> which solved that problem.
> 
> With that boot line it makes it to the first screen of the installer
> and then completely locks up. The keyboard doesn't respond at all (the
> capslock light won't even toggle) and a hard reboot is required.
> 
> I've tried any number of combination of boot parameters to solve this
> including "expert" instead of "linux", "noapic", "nolapic",  and also
> disabling USB from the bios (i need the usb=false either way with this
> still) but none of them seem to be of any help.
> 
> I had some concerns that some of my hardware might be flaky does to
> odd behaviour with the previous install but I've ran all the
> diagnostics provided and none of them showed anything up, so I don't
> think it's a hardware issue.
> 
> I've also successfully run another debian-install based installer (for
> our company's in house "distro") and there were no problems with it.
> As soon as I can get my hands on the CD's I'll give it a shot with
> straight debian and/or knoppix, but at the end of the day I'd like to
> have ubuntu on it.
> 
> Any ideas or advice you guys could give would be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim Leslie
>