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From: Ron House on 16 Mar 2010 21:20
Hello, I hope this is the right place to report a kernel bug.

I have an Acer desktop, bog standard system.

My previous kernel 2.6.26 tells me that I need to set option "noapic",
and then halts. This behaviour is correct.

Although it would be nice if the kernel dealt with noapic automatically,
the attempt to make this happen in 2.6.30 doesn't work.

Booting with 2.6.30 gives me a bootup with many errors - USB ports not
responding, failure to set the clock, and others. Then when it has
finished booting, both the mouse and keyboard are dead. (But the system
is running and can be accessed via ssh.)

When I reboot 2.6.30 with "noapic", it boots correctly.

My comment on this is that 2.6.26 is actually more useful than 2.6.30,
because 2.6.30 doesn't give any clue as to what is wrong or how to fix
it. If I hadn't previously had the experience with 2.6.26, I would have
been hopelessly lost.

Hope this is useful, and thank you so much for the wonderful software!

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