Adding makes it works. dmesg of booting kernel attached. hardware: asus m6n laptop 2gig ram 2.1Ghz centrino 2.6.20-2-generic works without nmi_watchdog=0!
** Attachment added: "dmesg from kernel WITH nmi_watchdog=0" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5593225/dmesg_2.6.20-3-generic -- linux-image-2.6.20-3-generic in ubuntu feisty crashes shortly after boot with NMI https://launchpad.net/bugs/77829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs