• Registered: 2009-05-04
  • Posts: 250

Topic: Where to look: ACPI boot failures

Morning all,

Recently upgrade the laptop to an t60 thinkpad (with radeon x1400 graphics) and have been experiencing a boot failure.

Within the first second of boot (before disks are mount and it can print messages to the /var/log) the boot hangs at: 

ACPI: Core Revision 20090903

The failure can be replicated (usually) when the computer is restarted in the dock. Occasionally it will do the same at next (battery only) powered started.

I can always get around it by using 

acpi=off

as a kernel boot parameter. Usually I can get around it by rebooting a number of times--or pulling the battery out and rebooting.

So what I'm really looking for is where I would investigate such an issue? The sort of bug that should be submitted to debian? If so--what is good practice to include in such a report?

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  • Registered: 2009-05-04
  • Posts: 250

Re: Where to look: ACPI boot failures

Nevermind....amazing what a big BIOS upgrade can do to fix low level problems.

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