I manager to fix this issue completely on Monday on my Dell Inspiron
530s with the help of the following thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765195&page=7
I simply added "all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll" after the -- as
suggested and was able to boot and install from the Live CD.
Yes, count me in as a potential brand new Ubuntu user that has been
stopped dead in my tracks. My Inspiron 530s came loaded with Vista and
I have it all nicely configured.
This sounds like a fixable issue. Given that I have no running version
of Ubuntu to update, I will have to wait for a fix an
