LiveCD 2006.1 boot stops Set Up Hardware Clock to UTC problem

[Simeon Nifos]

Hi List,
I just bought an ACER Laptop 5630. Unfortunately
this is the only Laptop where I encountered the
following problem:

When I try to install Linux from the Gentoo 2006.1
live CD the boot process stops at 
"Setting Up Hardware Clock to UTC". After that it 
says "one or more boot scripts didn't start 
properly". 

give root password or press CTRL-D for maintainance:

With SuSE 10.1 I get a time-out while trying to set
hardware clock and then it goes on properly. while 
other Linux distros either hang or stop at the 
same point. 

Moreover FreeBSD 6.2 doesn't boot at all, it stops 
after loading the kernel and the modules. I tried
bood with ACPI off e.t.c. but nothing changed.

Is this a motherboard related problem a BIOS problem?
Has any one of you had similar problems in the past?
What can I do?

Best,
S.N.



 
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