David Goodenough wrote:
I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it now boots.
You really need to file a bug report for this. Figure out what kernel you are using (try running 'uname -r', and then match that up with 'aptitude search ~ilinux-image' to get the package name), then run
reportbug linux-image-<version-from-above>
[This depends on you having either configured your networking so that
'reportbug' can use whatever mail server you have installed to send the
message, or the proper configurations in your ~/.reportbugrc file so
that 'reportbug' can send directly to the Debian BTS server.]
DW