This issue can be solved by adding noapic nolapic acpi=force as your boot parameters. It also works for Live CD Ubuntu, which freezes as well for me.
-- System freezes whilst powernowd stepping up AMD64 freq (intermittent/hoary) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
