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10.1 hangs at boot on Acer 4101


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Guest ccbunney

Hi,

 

I have 10.1 installed on my desktop and it works great. However, I recently installed it on my new Acer 4101 laptop and it always hangs at boot time....seemingly always at the point where it says 'Entering non-interactive setup'

 

I so far have not managed to get the system to boot once,

 

I have read it might be something to do with ACPI (and APIC - whats that?) so I press escape at LILO and try to boot with:

 

linux noapic nolapic noapci apci=off

 

but to no avail....

 

dont know what else to try - can anyone suggest anything?

 

Thanks!

 

Chris.

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Guest Stark

I have a Toshiba Satellite M35X-S311 and I have the same issue, but if I wait about 1 minute or so it will finish the boot process. I just upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 from 10.0 and in 10.0 this did not happen.

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Hi Stark,

 

I tihnk I fixed that problem - I downloaded the 2.6.8.1-24mdk kernel and now it boots fine.

 

I think it may have been something to do with the firewire module that was causing the problem.

 

Chris.

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Guest Stark

Interesting.. I will try that. Odd thing is that it doesn't hang in the same place every time. Sometimes it will hang at "Entering non-interactive setup" and sometimes it will hang at "Loading PCMCIA".

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