Again installing Ubuntu on Acer Travelmate 5530G

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Matthias Andersson
<matthias.andersson at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I've been trying to install ubuntu on my new laptop but I've forgot what
> I did the last time to get it to work, now when I boot I get the
> following messages
>
> "acpi#0 not found (buggy bios)" and "ata1 soft reset failed (device not
> ready)" and "ata2 soft reset failed (device not ready)".
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> The install then goes onto trying to boot into the graphical mode and
> fails, the installation is not proceeding from that point onward and I'm
> left at a command prompt.
>
> I've tried the acpi=off, noapic and nolapic options to no avail.
>
> I have been able to install arch linux successfully on the laptop by
> giving the boot parameter rootdelay=8. I've tried 8.10 alternative dvd
> 64-bit and jaunty alpha-5 64-bit. The problem with the 8.10 install is
> also that the radeonhd driver is the older 1.2.1 version which is not
> sufficient for the ATI RadeonHD 3470 x2.
>
>
> I would like to install Ubuntu on the laptop but I'm willing to leave
> Arch on it.
>
> //Matthias

May I suggest that you:

- Reset your BIOS to default settings and eventually disable
everything that is not required.

- Remove the "quiet" parameter from the boot line to have details
about the boot process and see were it stops.

- Try the "pci=nomsi" parameter or combinations of the already tried params.

- If Linux is your only system, check if your BIOS has an "AHCI" or
Linux mode option.

- and pray...

L.

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