On 25 July 2010 04:19, mds <mds@xxxxxx> wrote: > It's definitely a bug and not a user error. > Unfortunately the serial debug output don't work at this early boot > stage, and so I can't give you some log files. I would start looking through your BIOS options and see what can be changed there. Look for any options that overclock the machine. Look for any options that set compatability modes for SATA etc Maybe the BIOS will allow for single core If the stage1 bootloader is failing then it is difficult to debug. -- Cheers David