Comment 11 for bug 40093

i am having the same problem as ryan is describing. by running a regular install the computer hangs after "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."

i tried booting with "acpi=ht noapic nolapic". i get to a screen with the ubuntu logo and it says Loading essential drivers .. OK then Mounting file system and nothing follows it. Then a screen shows up with the following. "[17179571] BIOS bug, local APIC #0 not detected!..."

one thing i did notice in the boot options was this line.
ramdisk_size=1048576
my computer only has 512MB of memory, not 1 GB. further investigating this issue i restarted the computer and choose Memory Test. a screen with a blue background appears but no numbers are changing. two lines that stick out to me are "Pass 0%" and "Test 52%". pressing c for configuration or esc for reboot does nothing so it appears that the computer froze...which it probably did.

i am a beginner when it comes to linux but i do know most of the basic shell commands.

any help would be appreciated.