Ubuntu
acpi package

  1. Bug #363868
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 363868

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Leo Milano (lmilano) wrote :

Brian, this BIOS bug should not prevent you from booting, it just makes the powernow-k8 exit with an error, so you don't get cpu scaling. If you'd like to contribute to the report, please look at the info I provided above. What matters is the BIOS info. Just to make sure, you may try this (acpi=off is good for a start)

http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/debug.php

What's preventing you from booting from USB might be the same that's happening to me: an issue with the USB modules. Try this: boot in Recovery mode. If/when you see that after a few seconds the login is halted, remove and reinsert the usb drive. This happens to me at around 5 seconds. Reinserting the pendrive allows me to keep booting (the usb media is now properly recognized). But let's keep this bug report on topic. This USB issue must be reported separately. If you do, please notify me here and I'll post in the other bug report.