I have a IBM Thinkpad T42 with an ATI card. I edited the grub.cfg file by hand to remove the offending lines from within a Live session. I then fixed the defaults and updated grub file per the instructions above. It was still fixed after a reboot.
Here is the info from lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50] Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0550] Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Boot fails with Out of Range Pointer error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424503 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