Intermittent crash early in boot up - kernel oops?

[Raphaël Berbain]

Morgan Collett <morgan-ubuntu at mcode.co.za> writes:

> http://www.mcode.co.za/graphics/ubuntu/boot1.jpg

I have seen this one on my very first Ubuntu boot after the install -
not something that builds confidence, I can tell you :-).  I wasn't
able to reproduce it.  My Ubuntu machine might not be the most
reliable around, hardware-wise, so I attributed that to flaky
hardware.  Boot is a stressful time for any system.  I haven't seen it
ever since, but then I only booted maybe 2/3 times.

> Hardware: Sony VAIO PCG-FX190 laptop, 512MB RAM, PIII 850.

I saw that on a generic-assembled-from-bits-and-pieces machine.