Created attachment 73026 [details] picture of log message After upgrading to kernel 3.0.0.12 from 2.6.38.8 the kernel failed to start. I reported this to Unbuntu support via Launchpad, reference number 878031, and there is a lot of diagnostic info there captured by their apport tool. This startup failure can be avoided by having acpi=off or nolapic At the time kernel.bugzilla was unavailable so it was reported via email on 2.6.38.8)to len.brown@intel.com whi I believed was the ACPI maintainer, cc acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net. with 8 attachments subject was: kernel fails to start regression in 3.0.0 unless nolapic specified, still in 3.1.0
Created attachment 73027 [details] dmesg - 64000
Created attachment 73028 [details] acpidump
Created attachment 73029 [details] lspci
Still fails in most recent kernel I tried (ubuntu precise beta2) The effect of acpi=off or nolapic is that only 1 of the 2 processors is detected. I have only just discovered that kernel.bugzilla.org is back in operation, hence the new attempt to report this. I'm away next week so will reply to any questions or information requests then.
does it boot if you replace the workaround cmdline params with maxcpus=1 ? Can you reproduce using an upstream kernel that you built from scratch, or have all the tests been with the ubuntu binary kernel?
Hi Bill, Can you please try Len's suggestion in comment #5? Thanks.