boot time errors (hotplug probs?)

[Dave Fear]

Hi, folks 

I am having problems booting ubuntu. when the computer starts booting up
it hangs when it gets to the follow point it the boot process:

starting hotplug filesystem:

the first few times this happened it also display the following error
message(s):

modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp
(/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.ko) :
Operation not permitted

modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp
(/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko) :
Operation not permitted


The only way around this problem, at first, was to keep rebooting the
computer until it booted "properly" (i.e i could see the login screen
and login). 

I started searching on ubuntu mailing list, docs, faq and wiki for
information on this problem. I found that hotplug could be configured to
not load the modules by putting the the module names
in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.  This seemed to help a little because the
error messages now don't appear but the system still hangs at the same
point. 

After more searching on ubuntu mailing list, docs, faq and wiki i found
some kernel boot options that might help to (temporary) fix the problem.
the options i found were:

booting with the 'noapic' option
booting with the 'pci=noacpi' option
booting with the 'acpi=off' option

If anyone can help to solve this problem, help would be very very
greatly received and i really do like ubuntu and want to keep using it.


Thanks    

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Dave Fear :: dfear at blueyonder.co.uk