Boot stops and screen flickers before fully booted

[tryl]

I just updated my Mint 10 Debian edition, which I haven't done for a couple of months. It was about 400 updates.

When I booted, the boot sequence stopped and there just was a cursor on the screen which was (besides the normal blinking) flickering more random. About every 2/3 sec there is a short harddrive activity. When I press the power button the computer shuts down nicely.

I have no problem booting in failsafe.

When I edited the grub config by removing the quiet option, and tried booting a couple of times, some different messages are flickering (with the time stamp from the boot messages). Some of them are

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lp: driver loaded but no device found

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Bluetooth: RFCOMM: TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM: socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM: ver 1.1

The last message before the flickering is about initializing acpi, then the screen goes blank and the flickering starts, so I tried booting with noacpi and acpi=off. Nothing changed, except when I pressed the power button the computer just turned off, so I guess acpi got disabled.

Finally, I'm using the freedom hating nVidia driver. The nouveau crashed the computer about one a day when I installed Mint, and if I get a much stable system, I can hate freedom a little.

Does anybody have a clue to what's wrong or even better: How to fix it? I'd hate to tell my Windows friends that I reinstalled.

Have a happy day,
redards Simon from Denmark
:wq

[richyrich]

Don't know if this will help . .
Try replacing the noacpi with the nomodeset option in the boot line.

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