I don't think it has to be your motherboard failing: I have a perfectly healthy Gigabyte board and also suffer from this bug when booting in amd64 feisty. Haven't tried the x86 version though.
-- Feisty crashes after grub if usplash enabled (amd64) https://launchpad.net/bugs/86666 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
