I just tried booting with acpi=off, and indeed with that I manage to boot the live CD. I'll post the requested logs in a minute.
Just a note: the problem persists on the gutsy release candidate (not that I expected it to be fixed so soon already) -- gutsy beta live CD hangs during boot on compaq presario V3417LA https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149573 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
