You can see some of the kernel messages by pressing ALT-F1 (before the crash of course) or, even better, disable usplash and increase the verbosity altogether by deleting QUITE SPLASH from the command line.
Can you tell us what you see just before the crash? ** Changed in: Ubuntu Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- Freash install of Feisty Beta fails https://launchpad.net/bugs/97635 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs