Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the kernel >> boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter. > Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1 > apm: BIOS not found. > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) Gah sounds bad. At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the kernel parameters you already had set there? If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it. -Andy
