Comment 2 for bug 23048

This issue was first raised by me at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=68630

Also tried to follow the instructions on this link at least 4 times without
success:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ACPIBattery

In essence this is the problem:
The latest kernel I have installed is 2.6.12-9-386, which apparently has built
in ACPI support. But when I try to boot using this kernel the boot process stops
when it attempts to load the ACPI modules. I suspect that if I add the boot
parameters noapic and nolapic I suspect it will boot.

I have reverted to kernel 2.6.10-5-386 for the time being.

Booting with kernel 2.6.12-9-386 hangs the machine when loading the ACPI modules.

Installed kernel 2.6.12-9-386, went through the duffman25's APCIBattery page
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ACPIBattery and did the Breezy update (at the foot of
the page).

Rebooted - hung on loading APCI modules (or something like that - can't
remember), so I tried to add the two boot parameters that duffman25 suggests (I
did one at a time, then both), and this made no difference.

Reverted back to kernel 2.6.10-5-386, no further forward.