Hi, I had no problem booting natty-alternate-i386.iso from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/
I also tried the upstream kernel (2.6.36-020636rc7-generic) at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds and I could not reproduce the bug. Charlie ** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704613 Title: Maverick hard locks with kernel_thread_panic -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs