Quote Originally Posted by hlewis View Post
Have not been able to boot into 3.7 kernel since the upgrade, tried most if not all of the suggested fixes, nothing has worked. Noting that that the boot sequence appeared to stop at the logitech listing for the mouse... I disconnected the Mouse, that action resulted in the stop appearing at Power Resource to register! On a whim decided to disable ACPI in bios, didn't think this would do much, because as i recall most linux distros's ignore much the bios settings, could be wrong about that. I saved the settings and rebooted, and much to my surprise 3.7 booted.

Here is the output of my boot.log

Code:
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... FATAL: Error inserting microcode (/lib/modules/3.7.0-7-generic/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/microcode.ko): No such device
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... Begin: Requesting microcode update using per-core interface ... done.
done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done.
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
/dev/sda1: clean, 320549/15073280 files, 2597315/60279552 blocks
modem-manager[687]: <info>  ModemManager (version 0.6.0.0) starting...

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'SimTech'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Option'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Linktop'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'X22X'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Option High-Speed'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Nokia'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Longcheer'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'ZTE'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Wavecom'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Gobi'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Novatel'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Samsung'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'MotoC'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Sierra'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Huawei'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Ericsson MBM'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'AnyData'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Cinterion'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Iridium'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Loaded plugin 'Generic'

modem-manager[687]: <info>  Successfully loaded 20 plugins

 * Setting sensors limits                                                [ OK ] 
 * Starting mDNS/DNS-SD daemon                                           [ OK ]
 * Starting bluetooth daemon                                             [ OK ]
 * Starting CUPS printing spooler/server                                 [ OK ]
 * Starting Samba Auto-reload Integration                                [ OK ]
 * Stopping Samba Auto-reload Integration                                [ OK ]
SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin
speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher
 * Stopping System V initialisation compatibility                        [ OK ]
 * VirtualBox Additions disabled, not in a Virtual Machine
saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
 * Starting System V runlevel compatibility                              [ OK ]
 * Starting                                                              [ OK ]
 * Starting automatic crash report generation                            [ OK ]
 * Starting                                                              [ OK ]
 * Starting deferred execution scheduler                                 [ OK ]
 * Starting regular background program processing daemon                 [ OK ]
 * Starting anac(h)ronistic cron                                         [ OK ]
 * Starting                                                              [ OK ]
 * Starting                                                              [ OK ]
 * Starting save kernel messages                                         [ OK ]
 * Starting                                                              [ OK ]
 * Starting configure network device security                            [ OK ]
 * Starting CPU interrupts balancing daemon                              [ OK ]
 * Starting ACPI daemon                                                  [ OK ]
 * Starting configure virtual network devices                            [ OK ]
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
 * Stopping save kernel messages                                         [ OK ]
 * Stopping anac(h)ronistic cron                                         [ OK ]
 * Starting web server apache2                                           [ OK ] 
 * Stopping cold plug devices                                            [ OK ]
 * Stopping log initial device creation                                  [ OK ]
 * Starting load fallback graphics devices                               [ OK ]
 * Starting enable remaining boot-time encrypted block devices           [ OK ]
 * Starting save udev log and update rules                               [ OK ]
 * Stopping save udev log and update rules                               [ OK ]
 * Stopping enable remaining boot-time encrypted block devices           [ OK ]
 * Starting load fallback graphics devices                               [fail]
 * Starting GNOME Display Manager                                        [ OK ]
 * Starting
Make of this what you will but it is booting. Just thought it may be relevant.
Good find! I just tried the same Lubuntu disc that had earlier failed on me and used the acpi=off boot parameter as shown here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Success

The screen resolution is too low but that may even be a different issue. It's adequate to allow installation though, after which I could fiddle with the nVidia drivers