I've the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite Pro P100. It's a Dual Core processor, when i remove the dual core option in the bios, everything works fine... I've this problem with The Edgy CDROM and With Feisty Herd5 as well...
-- CPU soft lockup during bootup https://launchpad.net/bugs/63418 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
