Hardware upgrade and boot issues

[PleegWat]

PleegWat wrote:
> I've got the splash screen disabled; when the system stopped booting the 
> last couple of lines were either about usb initialization or about 
> invoking fsck.
> 
> What could be causing these issues? Are there any packages I should 
> reconfigure or bios settings I should check?

For what it's worth, I think I found the source of my boot issues: ACPI 
extensions which were enabled by default in the BIOS but not properly 
supported by linux.

PleegWat