Not too long ago I retired my Compaq V5000 CTO Laptop in favor of a newer HP 6515b. The only thing I’m missing thus far is the long life battery I had on the V5000, but that can easily be fixed with a few $$.

I am a big fan of dual booting systems – it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan in case the first plan fails. I put Vista Enterprise SP1 x64 on my new laptop (I have to get used to Vista eventually since I do have to support the machines at work). I then waited patiently for 8.10 Ubuntu to be released.

Went to install x64 of Ubuntu – install took just over 2 hours. Odd. Then nothing is really working up to par with a 2.2GHz AMD X2. I’m sorry to say, but it’s so far been a bad experience. I figured maybe it was a 64bit issue – redownload and try to install 32bit. The installer is taking forever again, so I forgo the installer and reboot.

Then I looked on the Ubuntuforums for some answers.

Basically, the ACPI is not fully written for. ACPI is advanced configuration and power interface.
That and the APIC is not fully written for. APIC is advanced programmable interrupt controller.

I’ve been told that when you are installing Ubuntu, run it with the ACPI=OFF command, and then when it’s installed, remove the ACPI=OFF from the menu.lst and replace it with noapic.

Here’s the fix:
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then find where it says kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=bunchoflettersandnumbers ro quiet splash
We want it to say ro quiet splash noapic