This is quite odd. Are you positive that when you _don't_ hit escape to enter the Grub boot menu that Grub is indeed defaulting to the most recent kernel (ie the one you are manually selecting)? A quick way to tell would be is that when you do hit ESC the kernel is highlighted by default.
If that isn't the issue, how about manually editing your grub's menu.lst to remove the ''quiet" and "splash" options. Then let it boot up without entering the Grub menu. That will let us see how far into the boot the system is able to get. -- broken PAT code in kernel causes consistent xorg freeze at startup for some users of intel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372028 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
