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I had to remove my laptop battery as it was bloated and seemed to be a bit of a safety issue.

Since removing it I cant boot Ubuntu 16.04 any longer. I still get into Grub and can boot my Windows 10, but neither the installed version of Ubuntu nor a bootable USB stick work.

When booting from the installed version I get the following error message: 

Ignoring BGRT: Failed to allocate memory for image

When booting from the USB I get: 

INFO: Task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 120 seconds  
Not tainted 4.4.0-21-generic #37 Ubuntu*"

I have a Gigabyte P34G v2. Do you guys have an idea how to fix this? (apart of getting a new battery)
Please let me know if you need any more info.

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I too have a Gigabyte P34G v2, with a swollen battery that I have removed. It appears that there is an ACPI bug that prevents ubuntu from booting. A work around is to turn ACPI off. Setting acpi=off in the grub boot string worked for me. More details here (plus a method to make this change permanent): How do I disable ACPI when booting?

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