Error "fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed"

appending acpi=off nomodeset xforcevesa worked for me (I have also an acer - TM4051 that halts on boot from HD)

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The equal sign is top rightmost, the key right left before backspace:

Here are a few things you can try - edit into your question with results if any either does or doesn't work.

• Some more detail info about your laptop might give some advice on what to try next. Booting from Live CD/USB...

  ...Open a terminal and type

  lspci
  

  and

  lsusb
  

  and

  sudo lshw
  

  Copy and paste the results into your question.

• Try turning off both power management and graphics driver loading during booting. To do this, edit /etc/default/grub, find the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line, and add acpi=off nomodeset xforcevesa. That is, the new line will probably look like:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off nomodeset xforcevesa"

• After that, run:

  sudo update-grub
  

  You can use this AU question to guide you through these two steps.

• Then enter your BIOS settings - have a look at the following bios settings and try toggling the values one at a time and see if you can boot (assuming these options exist):

  a. Legacy USB Support
  b. Disk Management/SATA/IDE Compatability Mode

I faced the same issue today. For the Travelmate 4050 a BIOS update from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 resolved the issue as well, the setting acpi=off is not needed any more (this is very nice, because acpi=off prevents the laptop from shutting down properly).