<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook <<a href="mailto:phb@hbsys.plus.com">phb@hbsys.plus.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ... Anyone else encountered this issue? Anyone any thoughts? Peter HB</blockquote><div> There have been issues reported like this in nature. Usually, as you point out, these occurrences are isolated on boxes with certain unsupported devices/drivers at boot time. It happens sometimes with new kernels because a device may have become unstable and it can cause kernel issues. Or you simply need to tell the kernel to load a driver. For example: Did previous versions of Ubuntu work fine for you (Hardy, possibily even an alpha or beta of Intrepid)? It's only the 32-bit Intrepid final that is failing to boot, which leads me to believe it's something to do with the final kernel included and your hardware. I just wanted to test it against another kernel at boot time. Questions: 1. How far are you getting into your boot-up? Do you get the splash screen, for example (Install Ubuntu/Try Ubuntu Live!). 2. Are you receiving any errors when you boot-up for installation on the failed attempts? This seems to be what you are pointing to. If so, what are they? 3. Is it the same error every time? 4. The only thing that made the final attempt successful for installation was simply that it was the 64 bit variant? Thanks, Craig </div></div>