After some work on IRC, I can confirm that init=/bin/bash in syslinux does boot to grub, but once
exec init is executed, it freeze instantanly, with the trace found above. DMesg looked clean before the freez. It look like sreadahead just fail badly. -- Ubuntu 10.04 i386 live CD does not boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557351 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs