I tried all kernels and the 2.6.17-10-386 worked. Digging in the ubuntu forum, I found that SMP kernels (i686: generic and server) causes some problems with some machine. I can make my laptop boot with i686 kernels using acpi=off in the boot parameter, problem is that it refuses to shutdown.
With the 386 kernel, there’s no need for noapic, nolapic nor acpi=off in the boot parameters. It just worked. I don’t know the impact of using a 386 kernel on a SMP capable machine but I’ll stick with it for now. As long as it doesn’t stop me from doing my job, I’m alright with it.
January 8th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
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