Again installing Ubuntu on Acer Travelmate 5530G

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 01:50 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Matthias Andersson
> <matthias.andersson at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
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> > Hi!
> >
> > 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)".
> >
> > 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...

  Entering this late, I too have an Acer, and I get ACPI lockups during
the boot process, the system worked fine before being replatformed and
suffering a new kernel, in the process.  I suspect that there is a
problem with ACER's choice of hardware and the current Linux Kernel.