I also have a similar problem with this hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Abit AB9 1xIDE DVD RW - Slave 1X80GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive - Master 2X SATA 2 Western Digital Hard Drives
At first I could not even load the Final Release Edgy LiveCD as I kept getting "Error loading boot CD" errors which then told me to reboot, or it would get stuck at 8% while loading the Kernel. After reading around on ubuntuforums.org I read about disabling things like USB, so I did this and then I could boot the LiveCD. I managed to install Edgy perfectly with no problems. However, when I was told to restart my PC did not restart correctly - it ejected my CD which is normal, but then it didn't shutdown. It just hung there with a little bit of the progress bar left with no hard drive activity at all. I had to do a hard restart in the end. After I did the hard restart, GRUB loads fine but I do see some errors flash quickly on the page which appears after, they go too fast for me to see but they look very similar to the ones in the first post of this bug report. I then get shown usplash with the smallest bit of progress bar showing, but nothing loads and there is no hard drive activity. -- Ubuntu Edgy build is (still) not bootable w/ jMicron Controller https://launchpad.net/bugs/66747 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs