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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sten Bennetsen, thank you for your comments. As per your https://launchpadlibrarian.net/101909791/BootDmesg.txt :
[    0.000000] ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 0
...
[    0.164693] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

Hence, as per http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers an update is available for your BIOS (3521). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate , does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and just provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Summary changed:

- 1217:00f7 Firewire prevents booting
+ 1217:00f7 [TravelMate 8200]  Firewire prevents booting

** Tags added: pwa

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Title:
  1217:00f7 [TravelMate 8200]  Firewire prevents booting

Status in The Linux Kernel:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When trying to boot using kernel 3.2.x kernel the screen just goes blank and harddisk IO stops.
  Removing the quiet and splash options in combination with nomodeset seems to reveal
  that the booting stops due to an error in setting the firewire's power levels (see attachment)
  Kernel 3.0.x work fine.

  ps
  The system was updgraded from 11.10 -> 12.04 beta 2

  WORKAROUND: Disable the firewire module from loading during boot.

  edit:
     /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf

  uncommented the line:
     blacklist firewire-ohci

  Run:
     sudo update-initramfs -k all -u

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: linux-image-generic 3.2.0.23.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic i686
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  xylth      2060 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xb0000000 irq 50'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC883'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0883,1025160d,00100002 HDA:11c13026,11c13026,00100600'
     Controls      : 32
     Simple ctrls  : 19
  Date: Sat Apr 14 23:55:19 2012
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4582b1cc-b90b-485e-9bae-5eb3afea532a
  IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  MachineType: Acer, inc. TravelMate 8200
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=4d03bdfa-c7f8-4502-8516-be6c6286e02b ro quiet splash
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-17-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-17-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.79
  RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  SourcePackage: linux
  UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-13 (1 days ago)
  WpaSupplicantLog:

  dmi.bios.date: 06/19/06
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: v1.3319
  dmi.board.name: Como
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer, Inc.
  dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: , Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrv1.3319:bd06/19/06:svnAcer,inc.:pnTravelMate8200:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer,Inc.:rnComo:rvrNotApplicable:cvn,Inc.:ct1:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: TravelMate 8200
  dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer, inc.
  ---
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  xylth      2060 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xb0000000 irq 49'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC883'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0883,1025160d,00100002 HDA:11c13026,11c13026,00100600'
     Controls      : 32
     Simple ctrls  : 19
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4582b1cc-b90b-485e-9bae-5eb3afea532a
  IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  MachineType: Acer, inc. TravelMate 8200
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=4d03bdfa-c7f8-4502-8516-be6c6286e02b ro quiet splash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-17-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-17-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.79
  RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  SourcePackage: linux
  Tags:  precise precise
  UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-13 (2 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
  WpaSupplicantLog:

  dmi.bios.date: 06/19/06
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: v1.3319
  dmi.board.name: Como
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer, Inc.
  dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.chassis.type: 1
  dmi.chassis.vendor: , Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrv1.3319:bd06/19/06:svnAcer,inc.:pnTravelMate8200:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer,Inc.:rnComo:rvrNotApplicable:cvn,Inc.:ct1:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: TravelMate 8200
  dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer, inc.

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