Hi Colin, Does pressing Alt+SysRq+K have any effect when this corruption occurs?
Do you have Lucid installed on the HD of this system, by chance? If so, is the problem reproducible there? If you drop 'splash' from the kernel commandline, what happens? ** Package changed: ubuntu => plymouth (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Corrupt display and machine hang when booting Lucid Beta ISO in Dell Inspiron 6400 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539579 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