I had reason to tinker further with this and have ascertained that the problem was associated with a faulty CDROM rewriter. Kernels prior to 2.6.20 and 2.6.20-16.28 we able to boot even though there were issues with the ata driver. All other post 2.6.20 kernels fail to deal with the delay in some ata responses and hence fail to boot. Removing the device means 2.6.22-14 boots fine. I will now try the live cd just to make sure it boots as well.
So the bug here is that the ata driver after 2.6.20 does not handle faulty hardware properly. -- Neither Gutsy nor Feisty Live CD boot on P4P800 based system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159577 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
