Ubuntu Upgrade from 11.10. to 12.04

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

I recently upgraded as above and all went well with 2 exceptions.

1	Upgrade Manager went into an infinite loop during the attempted 
download of the flash-plugin installer. Manual download outside of the 
Upgrade Manager succeeded whilst the afore mentioned program was looping

2	The impertinent programmer struck again and modified my BIOS without 
permission (as also happened during upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10). This 
cannot be justified as any part of an upgrade process.

Before I raise bug reports I would like to canvas opinion and establish 
if anyone else has bumped into these bugs.

Peter HB