The freeze is fixed now. I don't need any special options for booting. Now only kernel related problem with the machine is failure to get a picture to screen after suspend-to-ram (bug #46064).
Thanks a lot for the fix! -- [dapper] Soft lockup related to yenta IRQ handler https://launchpad.net/bugs/38856 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
