Laptops :: Can't boot on Dell Precision M70

How does "acpi=off" 'help'? What does using failsafe output? DId you try other power options?

SMP support is built into the kernel. Maybe it's the dual-core thing that's not detected, or something else that disables it.

Afaik, other laptop users have gotten that "Bad EIP value" error due to different screen dimensions - maybe try different ones for vga=### (press F2/F3 or see wiki for more info).

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