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on Macbook Pro 8.2 (Early 2011 15"), and maybe some other models,
if you will try to launch 14.10 Ubuntu LiveCD "as usual", you will be stuck at "i8042: No controller found" message

(but this error message is not pointing to a particular problem which
hangs a booting process --- because the same error message could be
found at dmesg of successful booting with nomodeset option. it looks
like the boot-breaking problem happens a bit later after an error
message above)

Workaround is to edit the booting option by adding "nomodeset", but such
a step could be unobvious to unexperienced users. Ideally, if nomodeset
option is really "must have" for booting some computers, the booting
process should automatically check hardware IDs and detect if nomodeset
should be enabled for the computer in use (at the early stage of
booting) -- and user still would be able to remove nomodeset by editing
the boot options, if there's a need

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment livecd mac macbook mbp utopic
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Can't boot 14.10 LiveCD without "nomodeset" option - Macbook Pro 8.2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406832
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