problem installing ubuntu 8.04 as a guest on windows XP pro

problem installing ubuntu 8.04 parallel on XP

today i was trying to install ubuntu 8.0.4 as a guest on my windows xp pro as a host an i tried to even boot from the live cd and i couldn't and i kept on getting this problem:

[ 0.000000] ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI

and here is a screen shot:






and i attached the bug report from the parallel program



remarking that i could install and boot from older version of ubuntu that i have, the 6.01 version


please i need your help with that guys and thanks in advance

 

would you please speak any common spoken language in my world :S

cause I'm sorry to say this but i understood nothing :S

 

initially it looks like your bios might not have acpi support (it might want the older version "apm" which is another module alltogether) but the fact that it's telling you to force acpi might give you another thing to try.

when you get to your startup screen on the list, try adding "acpi=force" to the startup options below before you boot it up. That is how you "force" it to run which might get it working. Here are some other boot options that might be of use. They just fixed a problem I had with acpi interupts. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

 

Also, use build 2232

 

first of all thanks for your replay and second i couldn't get it started i still have the same problem even when I'm booting with the (live apci=force) command

and third where can i get the build 2232?? i couldn't find that anywhere :S

 

and i tried with the command acpi=off also and it didn't work

 

its almost the same even with the acpi=force and here is the screen shot:












and here is a screen shot when i tried to boot with acpi=off








and i tried a lot of other commands and i could get nothing and by the way i can install the ubuntu old version such the 6.10 but any new other version i can't :S