Experienced exactly the same critical temperature problem with installed Dapper kernel on an HP dv5178us (with NVidia GeForce GO graphics) Removing the thermal module listing in /etc/default/acpid was the workaround to boot successfully.
The issue was resolved by updating the laptop BIOS to version F.13 A, after which the max critical temperature setting is 99 C, not 0 C. -- Installer says "Critical Temperature reached (0 C)" https://launchpad.net/bugs/58696 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
