<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have installed xubuntu on two different machines, with considerably different hardwre. On both the boot splash stops at "Checking Battery State". The only way I can boot is to boot failsafe to root and startx as root. I have tried modifying grub by adding noapic and nolapic but that did not help. Any ideas appreciated. </blockquote></div> Maybe you can just remove /etc/init.d/acpi-support from the list of services started. Or see why /etc/acpi/power.sh which is called by the former is hanging.Could it be the calling of laptop-mode or hdparm from this script? HTH Jani