Thinkpad R40e lock up at installer main menu

[Tim Leslie]

Aha, we seem to be in business now.

Thanks for that.

Tim


On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:41:27 +0100, Marcus Ahnve <marcus at ahnve.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
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