acpi=off made the laptop bootable and / is mounted rw. [code]$ dmesg | grep -i pnp [ 19.960985] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled [ 19.960989] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... [ 19.960995] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6a30 [ 19.960999] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbcfc, dseg 0x400 [ 19.963828] PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery. [ 19.963874] PnPBIOS: Warning! Your PnP BIOS caused a fatal error. Attempting to continue [ 19.963924] PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "pnpbios=off" option to operate stably [ 19.963974] PnPBIOS: Check with your vendor for an updated BIOS [ 19.964019] PnPBIOS: get_dev_node: unexpected status 0x37 [ 19.964063] PnPBIOS: 0 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 0 recorded by driver [ 28.734726] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 29.088808] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 29.117879] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. [/code] I thought these messages looked odd, but maybe they're normal with the acpi=off option.
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