Friday, 23 March 2012

SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr

Today I was trying to install Ubuntu 10.11 in one of my Hyper-V VMs when this error pop up. After the error you will see a lot of lines of installation ending in a blink cursor. No UI.

If you face the same problem, reset the VM and after selecting the language just press F6 and press enter to select acpi=off then ESC to go back. This should do it.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you very much for posting...This has worked for me.

    Neil

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  2. great,it worked for me too on windows server 2008r2.
    neeraj

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