Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6 (Kernel 2.6.28) crashes Compaq Armada M700 during boot-up.

I have just updated my own Compaq Armada M700 with the Jaunty release (not the Alpha as above), using the 'New distribution available' button on Update Manager. It all seemed to go smoothly but I have the same issue, It fails to boot with many messages scrolling past too quick to catch before locking up.

If I use Grub to select the 2.6.27 kernel instead of the default 2.6.28 it boots normally and runs well.

The update was from a three week old clean install of Intrepid.

Let me know if you want any more details. Is there anywhere I can find a file with the failed boot log in it?

Note! I attach lsmod, lspci, dmesg outputs from Ubuntu 8.10 running 2.6.29.1 kernel!

You encouraged me to perform further tests with newest stable kernel on this machine and a nice surprise occurred - it works just fine! However I cannot use ath5k with my wireless pc-card :( As far as I notice 2.6.29.1 doesn't support ath_pci module anymore.

Could you please enclose your /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg ?

You can try the following method with your 9.04, but this obviously can't be a solution during clean install...

sudo apt-get install build-essential
### wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/w/wireless-crda/wireless-crda_1.7_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.1/linux-headers-2.6.29-02062901_2.6.29-02062901_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.1/linux-headers-2.6.29-02062901-generic_2.6.29-02062901_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.1/linux-image-2.6.29-02062901-generic_2.6.29-02062901_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i wireless*.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb

### - applies to Ubuntu 8.10 only.

By the way - it is great to know someone is still using this great notebook :)

This is a real failure with the kernel so it should be against the linux package. Shifting to the right package.

I finally found time to try this again.. and thought I'd install the latest kernel before generating the log files.

I installed 2.6.30-rc4 from <http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc4/> and it now appears to boot successfully under 9.04.

Looks like a drive-by fix, so thanks to whoever. Nice to have the M700 working again, it is a nice compact laptop with good battery life (web browsing under Linux - 3.5 hours or so).

If anyone wants more info feel free to get in touch.

The causes described are the same as in bug #357724.
Please try out the workaround described there, i.e. blacklist the radio_maestro modulo.

This issue seems to affect the whole line of Compaq Armada laptops.