Colm, that solution suggests installing an mainline (upstream) kernel.
We've established they boot (see comments #3, #7, #8, #10) but it's not
a perfect solution because those kernels aren't modified for specific
Ubuntu releases (see Limitations on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds)
The same problem is happening here after upgrading to Lucid. Computer is a
ThinkPad R50e.
2.6.32-21 and 2.6.32-22 (today's update) won't boot, neither generic, nor 386.
After splash, just when gdm should start up, screen turns black and
there seems to be no activity whatsoever, no key combinatio