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When I tried to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 the system froze, so I've been playing around with a couple other linux builds (Fedora, Mint, and Puppy) the last couple days and I keep coming around to the same problem: a lockup during boot; each build referencing a kernel error. On another board someone suggested booting with a boot up line of "ACPI = off".

It works with other OS', but I'm not sure where to put this command. Can anyone 'enlighten' me, please?

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In /etc/default/grub

The last line you have to change.

echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
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