Murray, thanks for asking. I ended up connecting my IDE CD ROM drive to SATA controller using a converter and that works now.
But this bug is still at large AFAIK! It's the same bug as reported here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core_2_Duo_Support#head-27e09d1c217dbb49ac347ade4a3f1f62e274e99a It would be really nice to get this fixed in Fiesty. -- Installer (Live CD) Stuck at "Uncompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel" https://launchpad.net/bugs/58358 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
