Boot sequence hanging

[grazed]

Hi.

So, this is about my third time over the past year and a half that I have tried to install ubuntu over 3 different machines. First one constantly crashed every 5 minutes, the second would never recognize the laptop monitor, and now this. I think I'm about to throw in the towel with linux. -_-

I spent the past two days setting up my install with drivers, eye candy and the such. Then last night I got a random lockup while browsing screensavers. I rebooted, only to never get past it.

The machine boots, runs the loading bar, does a fcsk disk check, then hangs. It seems to always get stuck after the line that says "Loading ACPI modules"... or something to that effect.

I tried all of the available boot options to no avail, all having the same result. This is the second time this has happened on this machine.. The first being after a crash during updating... accidentally closed my laptop screen. =/ So it seems to only happen after a crash. I can't keep uninstalling every time my system crashes.

Is there anything I can do? any help would be deeply appreciated.

also, I'm running Hardy through wubi. The first time this happened it was on a partition, so I don't think it has anything to do with wubi.

Thanks!

[philinux]

I'm surprised you're running hardy this way. It's not ready for primetime.

It breaks. But anyway post here.

you'll get better info.

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=305

[grazed]

gutsy crashes my system every 5-10 minutes so i don't have much choice. =/

I found this...http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ght=acpi%3Doff

any way to apply that before booting?

[spiderbatdad]

Read the output of

dmesg

from the terminal. I believe you will see a line to the effect: ACPI disabled by system BIOS...try 'lapic' to fix the problem.

Follow the steps I posted in this thread...beginning around post 7 (i think) and continued on page 2.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=745093

Hint: you will add lapic to the kernel line.

[grazed]

well, I would be happy to show you the terminal output but as I said i can't actually get into ubuntu. It hangs in the middle of loading. Is there a way to access the terminal from the boot menu?

I edited my grub menu file through windows and added the change you suggested... but it still hangs on "Loading ACPI modules"

[spiderbatdad]

From the grub menu press 'e' to edit. Then arrow key down to the line that begins with 'kernel.' Delete 'ro --quiet splash' insert 'lapic'. Press 'b' to boot. Wait several minutes. After system starts run

sudo update-initramfs -u

Reboot.

[grazed]

I tried that, it looks like that line already had that code in it though from when i edited the grub file.

it's still hanging on loading acpi modules.

I'm guessing... I need to enter a command or line into the grub file that disables API?

if not I think I'm about to wipe my hands of this. I can't see so much time and effort just to get an OS to start properly on common hardware.

[spiderbatdad]

try noapic nolapic be sure to remove 'ro --quiet splash'

lol...there is no common hardware. Ubuntu is available factory installed by Dell now. And several other manufactuers...Asus...

[grazed]

that worked! kinda.

that leaves me with text followed by a whole string of Init errors saying...

username-laptop login:

thank you very much for your help by the way.

[spiderbatdad]

I would try logging in and fixing /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then run sudo update-initramfs -u

If you could then post your computer specs and upload dmesg as an archive maybe we can get everything running smoothly