The laptop freezes after the loggin into the root account on the liveCD (2004.3). This occurs after any I/O operation (like invocing ls etc.). Try'd using diffrent kernels supplied with liveCD, niether worked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Loggin into the account 2.Do any disk operation 3. Actual Results: Laptop freeze, no Input/Output response, needed to hard reboot it. Expected Results: Work properly. The laptop configuration: Asus M6746NEUH Intel Centrino 1.7 (Dothan), Intel 855PM and ICH4-PM chipsets. Redeon 9700 mobility, 512 MB DDR RAM.
Did you try any of the other options, like noapic or acpi=off? You could also try nosmp.
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