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will boot command params acpi=off or acpi=noirq ruin my hardware?

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Mar 15, 20264048 views
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Dell xps 15z here. Really, really trying to install linux distro to dual boot from. first goto is bt. cant even get past 'initramfs live media filesystem not found' on usb boot. next was ubuntu, fedora..may try gentoo Im learning it is not a distro problem. it is a hardware problem. with ubuntu i c…

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Fix for: will boot command params acpi=off or acpi=noirq ruin my hardware?

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Ubuntu provides a guide for working with this machine. Apparently the installer needs ; suffices for standard booting, which simply doesn't use ACPI for irq routing. (Which seems unlikely to matter on a laptop -- if it were a large SMP system, it mi…

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