Lucid 10.04 will not boot from Live CD or USB stick on HP Pavillon desktop computer

[Joe]

I have downloaded the Live CD image from today's daily Lucid 10.04 build (3/9/2010) for AMD64 and created a Live CD (DVD-RW, DVD+RW), and a live USB disk. None of these will boot on my desktop computer HP Pavillon a6430f. They do boot on my Compaq CQ60-615DX laptop computer. The boot sequence goes to the "Install package (as superuser)" screen. I then select "Try Ubuntu 10.04" and I get the Ubuntu startup sound, and then nothing. The system seems to be rebooting or retrying, but nothing happens. As mentioned, on my labtop, everything works as expected. Except for the fact that I was unable to write this bug report from the Lucid system - it said the linux image was not a genuie Ubuntu package. That is why I am wrting this bug report from Ubuyntu 9.10. Obviously, there is something about my desktop computer that Lucid currently does not agree with. I thought it was important to report this problem. Since Lucid will not boot, I am unable to collect any data.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: joe 1500 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC1200'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,103c2a6c,00100101'
   Controls : 35
   Simple ctrls : 20
Date: Tue Mar 9 14:13:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=fcb2190e-0e07-4612-8d7a-98c63f5b18df
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1058:0910 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:2504 Hewlett-Packard
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: HP-Pavilion KJ378AA-ABA a6430f
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic 2.6.31-20.57
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=c3e66a19-0936-4b3f-aaba-a934d9d7cbd3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-20-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.26
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1615): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1689): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1677): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (firefox:1761): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
dmi.bios.date: 04/15/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 5.11
dmi.board.name: NARRA3
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 3.02
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr5.11:bd04/15/2008:svnHP-Pavilion:pnKJ378AA-ABAa6430f:pvr:rvnASUSTekComputerINC.:rnNARRA3:rvr3.02:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: KJ378AA-ABA a6430f
dmi.sys.vendor: HP-Pavilion

[Joe (jgsylvesterjr)]

I successfully booted on a USB disk with a Live CD image made on 3/10/2010. So whatever caused the failure on 3/9/2010 has been resolved.

[Antoine Pairet (b-ly)]

As booting with a new image works, I have marked this bug as invalid.