You have been subscribed to a public bug: The same issues are present both with GPT UEFI and simple MBR non-UEFI installs. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 three times and each met the same fate. The first time you boot into the system after installing it, it works fine (maybe). However, after you reboot the system it will fail on such a grand catastrophic scale that you can't even boot into recovery mode since that will begin spamming error messages quickly as well. It does not output anything to logs during these errors so the only thing you have to go by are screenshots of the errors. In general the errors are all indicating issues with systemd-udevd. I also had similar problems in Ubuntu 13.10, plus some extra problems. Ubuntu 13.10 fails at installing grub and the grub-efi-amd64 and outputs tons of errors regarding efibootmgr.
It isn't related to the kernel since Ubuntu 13.04 with mainline kernel 3.12 works perfectly. It also doesn't seem to be related to firmware since I use linux-firmware-1.117 on Ubuntu 13.04 as well. It may be a bug related to efibootmgr and systemd. --- ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: mmstick 2398 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC2: mmstick 2398 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: mmstick 2398 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-13 (40 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) IwConfig: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. MachineType: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M. MarkForUpload: True NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: linux 3.8.0.34.52 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-34-generic root=UUID=1d566554-a73c-4ce0-9e48-45203b11c6f4 ro radeon.dpm=1 radeon.audio=1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-34.49-generic 3.8.13.12 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-34-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-34-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.106 RfKill: Tags: third-party-packages raring Uname: Linux 3.8.0-34-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1604 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: SABERTOOTH 990FX dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1604:bd10/16/2012:svnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnSABERTOOTH990FX:rvrRev1.xx:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To be filled by O.E.M. ** Affects: efibootmgr (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: Confirmed ** Tags: apport-collected bot-comment kernel-bug-exists-upstream-v3.13-rc3 kernel-da-key latest-bios-1604 raring saucy third-party-packages trusty -- [ASUS Sabertooth 990FX] Ubuntu 13.10/14.04 Catastrophic Random Kernel Crashes on Boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250321 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp