I can confirm this one. Same thing happening on my box. Hardware:
AMD Sempron Processor 3400+ Asus mobo K8VXSE NVidia GeForce FX 5200 1Gb ram No LVM No TV card. In all, pretty similar to the original reporter's hardware. More importantly the lockup appears to occur directly after the kernel loads the (binary) NVidia driver. (ugh ..) Tried booting with noapic and pci=routeirq, neither helps. I still have to try pci=noacpi and acpi=off, if those don't help I'll remove the restricted-modules package to see if it makes a difference. Unfortunately I can't seem to get to the stage where disks are mounted, otherwise I'd be able to post a stacktrace. -- [feisty] [linux-image-2.6.19-6] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! https://launchpad.net/bugs/72895 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
