Removed S13pcmciautils, and now it boots! You were dead right on that one.
It also seems to me that the bug here is definitely in either that i82365 PCMCIA bridge driver module, or in the code that attempts to find PCMCIA devices. My guess is the latter. One of the things I noticed was that this system doesn't even *have* an i82365 pci device when I look at the lspci output. No surprise there when I apply hindsight.. Here's what the S13pcmciautils script does (and note the kernel never reaches the end of this script): --- log_daemon_msg "Loading PCMCIA bridge driver module" "$PCIC" if [ "$CORE_OPTS" ]; then modprobe -Qb pcmcia_core $CORE_OPTS fi modprobe -Qb $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS log_end_msg $? ---- -- [feisty] [linux-image-2.6.19-6] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! https://launchpad.net/bugs/72895 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs