While booting these bug warnings are generated: ACPI APIC Table: <IBM TP-74 > ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X length mismatch in FADT/Gpe1Block: 0/32 (20130823/tbfadt-601) ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): Optional FADT field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x000000000000102C/0x0 (20130823/tbfadt-630) ACPI related output of dmesg: > dmesg | grep -i acpi Features=0xafe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE> ACPI APIC Table: <IBM TP-74 > ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X length mismatch in FADT/Gpe1Block: 0/32 (20130823/tbfadt-601) ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): Optional FADT field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x000000000000102C/0x0 (20130823/tbfadt-630) acpi0: <IBM TP-74> on motherboard acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, 3ff00000 (3) failed cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0 atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0 Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0 acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 20 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0 acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0 I do not know if the lines with "failed" are related to this bug. But it is worth hinting to this.
I believe these are warnings about bugs in your BIOS, but you can probably just ignore them. The reservation failed messages you can also ignore.