Boot does not fail. It's text based with a lot of screen artefacts and flickering. It shows the blue/white progress bars in combination with text.
This machine has an Nvidia controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96M [Quadro FX 770M] (rev a1) -- The new bootsplash does not handle LVM disk encryption [lucid] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534383 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs