I know you guys are busy, so this is a total "wishlist" thing to ask you to do.
If on some of these boxes with strange failures you could test http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/ That would be great and give us a much better understanding if it is the kernel which is broken, or the BIOS/ACPI/etc. of the board in question. -- The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE4 master (hdg) failed https://launchpad.net/bugs/80503 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs