try with another hard disk. It might be broken on the area where swap is stored and that's not really used on normal boot.
Fabio -- Hibernation on Feisty herd 3 doesn't wake for Sun Ultra 20 Work https://launchpad.net/bugs/83078 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs