Seems to have been a hardware problem, sorry for beeing rude. The machine needed a restart and looking at the BIOS the hard-drive data seemed quite odd, surely enough an autodetect failed... After a bit fidling with the cables not only did could BIOS see the HDD again and the new kernel booted without a problem. Not sure what exactly was wrong, but as long as it works...
-- Stops booting with "Error 18: selected cylinder exeeds maximum support by BIOS" https://launchpad.net/bugs/64342 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
