ACPI Error Booting Live CD On New Laptop

[n8oay]

I received a new Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 laptop for Christmas. It is a AMD Dual Core with 3gb of memory and ATI video. I am going nuts trying to get Linux installed. I have tried both the PCLOS 2009.2 and PCLOS-Gnome 2009.2 (I prefer Gnome over KDE). I have tried booting the Live CDs normally, and VideoSafeModeFBDev, VideoSafeModeVesa and Safeboot. Booting the Live CD normally, it stops booting just a few seconds after displaying the splash screen. In Safeboot mode, I am able to see an error message referring to ACPI but it loops so fast that I can not read any of the messages.

Someone on the PCLOS-Gnome forum replied that he had been able to get Sabayon to load on a brand new Lenovo laptop with similar specs, so I tried the current version of Sabayon (I have no interest in installing Sabayon, I just tried it for testing purposes). I had the same problem locking up after displaying the splash screen. Then I tried Sabayon's Debug Mode which does no use a splash screen. I was able to get the following partial text of some of the errors that I saw:

The first line of the error message starts with:
ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND ffff8800ac631780

The second line displays "ACPI" then more text with "psparsw" and 4 numbers that I could not read

The 3rd line I could not read
The 4th line is:
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method

And the 5th line is:
Starting Hardware Distraction Layer daemon...
after displaying this line it stopped booting.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you!
Dave

[bigsite]

try safeboot option from the list on startup, or hit esc key and in the options section put acpi=off

[n8oay]

I tried ACPI=off and Safeboot. Neither one works. Turning ACPI off in the Bios and also using Safeboot runs further through the boot process until it stops with an error indicating that the boot media can not be found and dropping to a "limited shell". If I leave ACPI off in the Bios and boot into Windows the fan runs only at low speed, making the laptop overheat quickly.

[bigsite]

  oh no, don't turn it off in the Bios................how about the "sata probe" while adding the "acpi=off" and "nolapic" and "noapic" (wo quotes) as well to the options?

If this is a remaster or mklivecd, don't feel too bad if it drops to the shell.........that is a media problem that many are having.......including myself

[kjpetrie]

If those options can get you as far as failing to mount the media, you might be able to try poor man's install. Search for details.

[n8oay]

I have given up trying to get 3009.3 to boot on the laptop. I know that 2010 is being prepared. Is there any possibility that it will include fixes for the ACPI problem and work better with SATA hard and optical drives?

[n8oay]

I just saw this post on Twitter:

@iluvpclinuxos Finshed my 2.6.32.8pclos4 kernel and running great. Need to work it into mylivecd. Also trying to build a pae kernel per user requests.

Will this new kernel fix the ACPI problem on the Toshiba L505D-S5983 and other newer laptops?