Colin, I'm sorry - no logs - foolish on my part. Some of the others here sound like they haven't turned in their machines yet. I can tell you (with the obvious caveats about human memory being bad for technical details when the tiniest thing matters!) about partion scheme if that would help.
Emanuele: I can't guarantee that my computer wouldn't have booted within 5 minutes - I didn't leave it on long enough after the long nasty sounding beep... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774089 Title: Booting fails 3 times, works every fourth time after new install of Natty Narwhal amd64 on Macbook Pro -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs