Boot: progress bar depends on key press on startup

[SeanJFraley]

I've got the same problem also. Here is the attached dmesg to examine.

[wribeiro]

Here is my dmesg log

http://topos.webhop.net/topos/temp/dmesg.txt.tar.gz

Thank you once more

[wribeiro]

I found 2 other posts about the same problem:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...boot+key+press
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...boot+key+press

[wribeiro]

The entire dmesg.log is here: http://pastebin.com/m49642a1c

[crinje]

I had the same problem.

I am using HP Pavilion dv6000 and since I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04LT to 8.10, I suffered under the same thing - the booting progressed only when I press the key.

And with the kernel option of

acpi=noirq

the problem solved completely and I am happy now.

Thanks Josueped.

[Lesouteneur]

I had the same problem.

I am using HP Pavilion dv6000 and since I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04LT to 8.10, I suffered under the same thing - the booting progressed only when I press the key.

And with the kernel option of

acpi=noirq

the problem solved completely and I am happy now.

Thanks Josueped.

It worked for me too

[jdackle]

Heck, I went completely nutts with my HP Pavilion dv6710 and fired "acpi=off" right-away!

It did solve the key problem and later ones (oh, 'cause besides that it'd hang before getting the X server up (which I would then manually start!), during fresh-install, that complained about USB, keyboard, etc.

Now I have this problem with Bluetooth! I never had anything Bluetooth in my life, don't plan on having and still, shutdown hangs on the darned thing! I', sure I can find a way to turn it off once I get back to having a boot to Linux (currently with Vista and I do know that is a different problem).

Anyways, wanted to provide my input, FYI sake.

jblackthorne, I myself don't really have time to play around with this, moving to another town later this week, where amongst other things, Internet-connection will not be freely available soon...

If you can get a nicer or just quicker workaround, I'd appreciate. I do understand there are now more than one case being discussed in this thread, whose rightful owner is wribeiro (hey, Ribeiro's my mother's mom maiden name! lol).

I guess I'm going a bit berserck. This seems somewhat a common problem though?


EDIT: I gave up and simply did a fresh install of Hardy.
My BIOS does have problems though. HP Health Check in Vista keeps saying I need to update my BIOS firmware - I do so and everytime I do it's the exact same release (F30 of April 24th 2008 ) and after I "re-update", it keeps saying I have to update. Could be a problem with the HP Health Check program but as I got problems in Ubuntu 8.10 too (which actually told me I might need to use pnpbios=off, which I did to no improvements), I'm assuming it's either the BIOS firmware itself or maybe the Winflash utility used to ... flash it.

[jdackle]

You'll find a very good tuorial/troubleshooter concerning this and other issues with HP notebooks here:

HowTo [EN]: Ubuntu Linux on HP Pavilion series dv2000, dv6000, dv9000



EDIT: Both methods posted on the above site for working around the boot problem seemed to work. However, none could actually get me an usable Intrepid install.

[lunchboxtheman]

here is the fix. from terminal

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Find the line

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=...ro quiet splash

add

acpi=noirq to the end so

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=.... ro quiet splash acpi=noirq

and you are good to go.

Thank you so much! It worked perfectly for me too!
Just some info to add about this bug that might aid in solving it:
Compaq Presario F700
Ubuntu 8.10
Kernel 2.6.27.9

[Ripose]

The best solution I have found is to add nophet to the kernel line in menu.lst

Why? Because AMDs and the latest Linux kernels do not play well together if the High Precision Timer is enabled, this timer is geared towards Windows Media Player. The nophet command will disable the timer.

VLC will work fine without the timer anyways, and a lot better than any other media player.