>I had exactly the same problem recently with almost the same laptop: >Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 that I had previously given to a friend. I >switched it back to Jessie.
I can confirm this on Dell Mini 1012, installation is successful, first boot is okay. After reboot all boots fail at various places. I have tried minimal install (no X) from RC2 with same behavior. I have not tried installing sysV and removing systemd after first boot, just sticking with jessie for now.