[Bug 52553] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!

[Karl Hasselström]

I'm seeing this exact problem as well, on the same hardware. The noapic
boot option does seem to solve the problem for me, but unfortunately it
also makes the mouse pointer very sluggish (I imagine it doesn't get
polled often enough by the kernel, or something). The contrast with os X
(or, for that matter, linux on the few occasions I do manage to boot it
withot noapic) is striking.

I tried attaching a usb mouse, but it has the same problem as the
trackpad.

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Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52553