Yes, it seems this bug is being encountered alot. Google searched
forums are coming up with thousands of un-answered problem threads.
I have the same problem. Pretty much a brand new Dell Latitude D830.
Not sure of the mobo or some of the other hardware. It is running an
Intel Centrino Duo,
I can't even get the live disk to boot. I put the disk in, go to the
bios set it up to boot from cd/dvd rom drive. Ubuntu starts booting, I
get to the splash screen/progress bar where the orange bar glides back
and forth, then dumps me into that weird prompt.
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boot - /bin/sh: can't access