My office mate could reproduce the exact same bug on his machine. Edgy installer (desktop cd) just hang at ~50%. Everything was just dead. He also had to hard reset the machine.
Attaching "lspci -vv" from his machine... ** Attachment added: "lspci -vv from another machine with exact same symptoms" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4941824/MV_lspci-vv.txt ** Summary changed: - Edgy unable to install on AMD64 3200+ + System freeze up during edgy installation ** Tags added: edgy freeze install stall -- System freeze up during edgy installation https://launchpad.net/bugs/68867 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs