ran dmesg from a live CD boot. found a message that sd needs to be updated
** Description changed: Do: - Boot from Xubuntu Intrepid Desktop Beta 1.10.2008 + Boot from Xubuntu Intrepid Desktop 8.10 Ctrl - Alt - F1 sudo cat /dev/sda1 >> /dev/null Result: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18655891/50_11_16-041008.jpg My harddrive is an 250 GB IDE from Samsung, model number : SP2514N I first ran across this issue when trying to upgrade to Hardy. Strangely, I was not able to reproduce it with the Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha - 2. + 2 (running in rescue mode, without installing). ** Attachment added: "dmesg.xubuntu.8.10.live.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19781005/dmesg.xubuntu.8.10.live.txt -- [intrepid] read from Samsung SP2514N IDE hard disk causes system freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs