Hi all,

I have this annoying problem with my Dell Vostro 400 desktop computer during start up. When I power on the computer the following occurs:

* Dell logo
* Grub loading stage (count down message) with the option to press Esc to edit options etc.
* Boot from (partition number etc)
Starting up ...
[5.x] Not responding (where x is different for every reboot)
* Computer reboots

It does this repeatedly unless I go to recovery mode at the grub menu and resume normal boot from there or start pressing keys randomly at the "Starting up..." stage and hopefully get a "Loading..." message, which will then resume the boot to the desktop.

I have ubuntu 9.04 - fresh install.

Is this a USB problem? Also there are no problems using the keyboard during bios, grub boot options editing or after login.

Please help

Press any key during the grub prompt and then press 'e'. This will take you to a screen in which
in which the kernel commandline will be in one of the lines. Highlight that line and press 'e'
again. Check if there is any word called 'quiet'. Remove that word. Press enter and press 'b'.
This may give more verbose information on what is exactly going on behind 'not responding'.

Hi and thanks,

It stops for some time at [0.3] for Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000 and then it jumps to [5.]Not responding and then continues up to checking if image is initramfs... before it restarts.

I've attached the dmesg when I finally managed to boot into the desktop by pressing random keys on the keyboard during the "Starting up" part.

Adding nolapic to the kernel option solved it, but since I have two processors it only enables one of them

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