I tried this on another PC, same thing: - a single beep right when the boot screen (ubuntu logo and a progress bar) disappears and an empty textmode screen appears with the blinking underline cursor in the upper left corner
uname -a : Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6848998/dmesg.log -- beep during boot and shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/90156 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs