I do possess this very same laptop model. The ahci (for SATA hard drive access) module hang with dapper kernel. The solution is to boot a working kernel, add this line in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file: "blacklist ahci" You must regenerate your initramfs after doing that: update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.15-25-386 (or whatever ubuntu kernel you intend to use) Then try to reboot: the ata_piix driver will be used instead of ahci, and it works.
It is crucial to boot a working kernel to do the modification as any attempt to write on the hard drive on a faulty kernel is likely to just fail, crashing the computer. By the way: I maintain a kernel module that implement some missing features of this laptop (temperature reading, lcd backlight probe and control, multimedia keys, Fn keys,....) it's at http://sourceforge.net/projects/omnibook/ As it is supported by HAL, it is used by gnome-power-manager and thus integrate well with the Gnome desktop. -- dapper on toshiba sat. m70: gnome immediately freezes with new kernels (incl. 2.6.15-23-386/686) https://launchpad.net/bugs/45636 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
