… turn off the “Fan always on on AC power” option in your BIOS. That will solve the issue where the installer hangs on startup with the following error:
soft lockup cpu#0 stuck for 61s
It will save you hours of frustration after you waste your time trying to track down patches on various PCI scanning bugs fixed in older kernels.
Lol lol, get a Mac!
1 | Matt December 30th, 2008 at 9:38 amHi There
Thanks a million for this tip. I have been trying for weeks to get this solved.
Now Ubuntu works like a dream (off a USB drive) on my 2530p.
Mike
2 | Mike January 11th, 2009 at 3:00 pmThat’s really a great tip. Thanks a lot! How did you find it out?
3 | John March 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pmI found it after hours of frustrated googling. Hopefully my posting a link to it makes it bubble up further in the results!
4 | Ocu-Master March 7th, 2009 at 1:28 pmDude,
xlnt fix. what affect does chaging this setting have /
5 | Pez March 25th, 2009 at 6:01 amI have no idea what it fixes, all I know is that it works :p
6 | Ocu-Master March 25th, 2009 at 12:20 pm