I finally found the reason the the freeze! The kernel stops after he initialized the USB devices. I have disabled USB in the bios and the edgy Installer is finally working.
Are there any USB patches in the installer kernel that may cause this behaviour? I never had problems with other kernels before. -- freezes on boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/47241 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs