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- Subject: [SLUG] Booting-up problems
- From: Leslie Katz <lesliek19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 03:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
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I installed Ubuntu version 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1501laptop with the latest available BIOS (2.6.3) via the Wubi-installer.
During the bootup process, I always see two bug messages, whether or not the process completes satisfactorily. If it does complete satisfactorily, I find in the dmesg output another message that seems relevant. Here are the three messages in order of appearance:
"ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254."
"MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC."
"PCI: BIOS BUG #81 [49435000] found"
When I search on the three messages, I find a blizzard of references to them, but nothing that helps me truly understand what the messages mean. Also, it seems that different people are using a smorgasbord of different kernel parameters in an attempt to overcome the effect of the MP-BIOS bug. Sometimes, I don't need to use any parameters at all and I boot up satisfactorily. Sometimes I use parameters I've seen suggested and they work, but sometimes they don't. When they don't, I get stopped at an initramfs prompt. If I try to exit from it, it just appears again.
I'd be very grateful for any advice as to how to overcome the two bug messages every time I boot up.
Thanks for reading this,
Leslie
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