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Install Sucess, Boot Fail...

Asked by Mallorie Nasrallah

I managed to Install Ubuntu successfully, i had to use noapic settings, but the install was otherwise very smooth, however not i am trying to boot up for the first time and i can not get past a screen that reads:

Starting up ...
[ 29.799601] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[ 29.978469] Kernal panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! boot with apic=debug and send a report. then try booting with the 'noapic' option.

so naturally i tried to do as it told me and went in to my bios and dug around, but could not even begin to find what i needed.

im running a Asus motherboard with an amd athlon processor.

and thank you thank you thank you in advance if anyone can help.

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Best Connor Imes (ckimes) said : 		#1

Have you re-added the noapic option to the kernel boot line? At GRUB, press "e" to edit the boot line, and "e" again to edit the second line. Add "noapic" to the end, press enter, then "b" to boot.
Once in Ubuntu, you will want to add that option to load automatically, so edit the grub config file
   gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Scroll down in the file to the kernel line for the first boot option, it will look like it did at the GRUB menu when you edited the kernel boot line. Add "noapic" to the end, then below the "initrd" and "quiet" lines, add a new line which simply says "savedefault".
Save and close. Now when you reboot, you won't have to manually add the noapic option.

If it still doesn't work, you may want to try other options as well (still using noapic), like "acpi=off".

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Mallorie Nasrallah (mallorie-nasrallah) said : 		#2

Thanks Rocket2DMn, that solved my question.