Upgrade to edgy unusable with AMD64

[Mlt]

I have just updated my dapper system to edgy and have some very strange problems that I suspect are related but do not know how.  The system is an AMD64 system on an asus motherboard A8N-VM.  This board caused some problems in dapper until I updated the bios.  There are no more updates of the bios available

When I boot messages are as normal except for a message at the bottom saying:

Kernel direct mapping tables up to 1000 0000 @ 8000-8000

Then at the point I would expect usplash to start the screen blanks and I am left with a white cursor in the top left.

If I change to tty1 then I get the following error message:

5e411d60:4c7d4512 F1 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE!

It then notifies me that the 4 logical volume are now active and then the following message:

5e411d60:4c7d4512 63 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE!

The computer then seems to do a complete check of the file system which the system passes.  The system then does a very slow boot to an x terminal, there are no errors posted during this process.

The system then goes into kdm which will accept input for a short time (I think until a return key is pressed) then the keyboard is ignored for x or a console and there is no acceptance of any other USB input.  The machine will then boot properly but no input is possible.  It is possible to login from a ssh session but there is no bash/dash shell just a “dumb” $.

I have tried booting with acpi=off noapic and this has not solved the problem.

I have also tried reinstalling the packages making up the ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu *standard metapackages and this has not improved matters.

In addition I have used a beta1 edgy livecd which would not boot past the first error message as outlined above.  This was also tried with noapic acpi=off.

[Mlt (mlt)]

What did solve the problem was turning off usplash which has allowed the system to boot properly.

This should be marked a duplicate of the usplash amd64 bug.

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

Okay, marking as duplicate of bug #61711.