cannot boot Acer Aspire 5810T with -generic-pae kernel and 8GB of ram

[Dan Trevino]

After upgrading my laptop to 8gb of ram and adding a new SSD as a primary drive, I tried to do a new install. The live CD for both 10.10 (desktop i386, netbook i386), and 11.04 (desktop i386) both boot up and recognize my new SSD drive for installation. However, after successful install, on reboot, nothing happens after GRUB tries to boot.

In both cases the -pae kernel is installed.

When I ripped out the 8gb of ram, and went back to 3gb, and re-installed from scratch, the SSD worked just fine, using the obvious default desktop kernel.

I tried to compare the configs, but the only differences I could see, besides the 64GB Himem, would be a couple of SCSI drivers and some Xen stuff.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic 2.6.35-22.35
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dan 1612 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd4400000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'Intel Cantiga HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,1025022b,00100004 HDA:80862802,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 21
   Simple ctrls : 10
Date: Sun Feb 20 22:37:44 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=32888ad9-925a-4293-bd15-b73221939860
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5810T
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=e203ed4a-f590-442d-a010-2f13b735a81d ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38.3
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: V1.06.
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire 5810T
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvrV1.06.:bd04/06/2009:svnAcer:pnAspire5810T:pvrV1.06.:rvnAcer:rnAspire5810T:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnChassisManufacturer:ct1:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5810T
dmi.product.version: V1.06.
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

After successful install with 3GB, added 8GB back, and successfully loaded with generic kernel "2.6.35-02063504-generic #201008271919 SMP Fri Aug 27 20:27:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux" and 2.6.35-22-generic Maverick kernel. Other than only seeing 3GB of RAM, they work.

Attempting to boot with 2.6.35-22-generic-pae failed.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Dan,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

Tested with mainline kernel. Same issue. See message #2 above.

2.6.35-02063504-generic #201008271919 SMP Fri Aug 27 20:27:22 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

tagging this as natty too, since I can see the same thing after upgrading to the latest nightly build.

dan@chaos:~$ uname -a
Linux chaos 2.6.38-5-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 16:09:46 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Dan Trevino, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please report the results following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ? As well, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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